On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 05:44:07PM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > > However, it seems the upstream build actually depends on setuptools-scm now, > > they (you? :)) don't use any other way to tell the build system about > > the data files - the *.png images, the *.rst documentation, etc.. > > This... may be a problem if the package is not built out of a Git checkout > > with Git itself present... and Debian packages are usually expected to be > > built out of a plain extracted source archive, no `.git/`, no anything. > > I am just contributing to the project, specifficaly I try to add a proper > pyproject.toml file. > > > I'd suggest making some changes upstream, like listing the data files > > yourself: > > https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/datafiles.html > > > > (or, of course, switching away from setuptools, but any build system you > > choose > > may still need to be configured to include the data files along with your > > Python module sources, although some of them do this by default for most > > files) > > setuptools is not the right tool in order to build Python projects ?
It's not that it is not the right tool, but it has accumulated a lot of history over the years, there are a lot of things that it has to do to maintain compatibility with older projects that were written for older setuptools versions. Occassionally they do make incompatible changes, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but IMHO that's not really a bad thing :) Some newer build systems, like hatchling or flit, are more streamlined (that's another way to say "opinionated") - they do not let you do everything you can do with setuptools and setuptools plugins, but they handle the most common cases with a minimal amount of configuration. Sorry, I may have phrased my original sentence a bit too strongly - I am NOT saying that you should migrate away from setuptools, but I personally have found hatchling much easier to configure for simple projects. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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