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I have a dozens of packages created since 2009 and never had issues with distutils, setuptools also worked fine for me. Even C extensions weren't a problem. Re

by bvrmn 3y ago

I have a dozens of packages created since 2009 and never had issues with distutils, setuptools also worked fine for me. Even C extensions weren't a problem. Recently I've tried setup.py-less approach. Oh boy. What a mess "modern" python packaging is. Multiple backends. PEP-517. pip<23 could not install your package. `build` tool includes explicitly excluded files. At least you can include markdown as a README for the package.

nerdponx 3y ago
Setuptools is supposed to work with PEP 517 just fine with no changes, other than adding the build-backend declaration in pyproject.toml. Old versions of Pip will find your setup.py and use it directly, and new versions will find it via pyproject.toml and invoke it via `build`. Maybe you hit a bug? Or were doing something unusual and complicated. I never had a problem with the transition in a Setuptools pronect.