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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021, at 3:06 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 10/21/21 1:18 PM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>> Side note: calling setup.py is essentially deprecated:
>> https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html
>> <https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html>
>
> This is essentially bullshit: the replacement method proposed in this
> page is supposed to be "pip install", which does dependency resolving
> and download from the internet, which is not useful (and even forbidden
> at package build time) for downstream distributions.
>
> If using pip is the only thing that upstream Python people are proposing
> to distributions, without any distro-specific options (like the
> --install-layout=deb option of setuptools, for example), then something
> really wrong is going on.
>
> Unless I missed something and upstream Python likes us from now on?!?

I think https://pypa-build.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ may be the new tool that is a bit more usable for distros. But I've not used it at all so couldn't comment on its applicability.