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by woodruffw
1261 days ago
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Yes, setuptools is also perfectly fine. It had some rough edges around PEP 621 support for a while, but those were mostly smoothed out in 2021. (I'll note that maturity is not strong evidence here: distutils is very mature, but is in the process of being deprecated and removed from Python entirely. I don't think that's likely to happen to setuptools, but the fact that behavioral PEPs now exist for all of these tools means that the decline/abandonment of any poses much less of an ecosystem risk.) |
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And I should've been more upfront about the real reason for suggesting setuptools: there seem to be a number of build tools that support pyproject.toml, including flit, poetry and setuptools (and I'm sure I've seen at least one other). For me, at least, when I was making a small library recently, it was an overwhelming choice for a part of my project that feels like just admin rather than core business logic. I came close to giving up and just using setup.py with `setup()`. At least setuptools with pyproject.toml is a choice that feels safe; it may not be the best, but it will certainly be good enough that I'm unlikely to regret it later, so I didn't need to spend a lot of time looking at the detailed pros and cons of all the choices.