Some thoughts about easing a migration path away from setup.py

[ofek (Ofek Lev)]

@pf_moore

@ofek has a proposal for an extension builder interface that might be of interest to you.

Yes precisely, I mentioned that in the final point here User experience with porting off setup.py - #11 by ofek

As Henry and everyone else has mentioned, please look at what already exists and then circle back with what you find insufficient.

@oscarbenjamin

I don’t like it because it has implicit defaults and has too many configuration options making it difficult to reason about exactly what it is doing short of running it and then unpacking the sdist to diff the contents.

It has what I would argue the best defaults for users and in fact what users expect to happen by default. Additionally, there is no guessing because the defaults when you don’t specify inclusion/exclusion options have been documented forever:

• Source distribution - Hatch
• Wheel - Hatch