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> And since this Pipfile is just a bunch of function calls That hasn't been settled yet. It's being actively discussed [0]. > Or is the idea to eventually get

> And since this Pipfile is just a bunch of function calls That hasn't been settled yet. It's being actively discussed [0]. > Or is the idea to eventually get rid of setup.py? Yes, a replacement for setup.py has already been agreed on in PEP 518 [1]. It's called pyproject.toml. [0] https://github.com/pypa/pipfile/issues/10 https://github.com/pypa/pipfile/issues/10 [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/

theptip 10y ago
That PEP leads down an interesting path -- hadn't realized there was a completely new packaging tool called "flit" that's aiming to be much more lightweight than setuptools. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flit https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flit Looks quite nice, a flat .ini file for specifying deps, though it only builds wheels.