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- Tell HN: I forked and republished a popular, abandoned Python library
- Latest Setuptools broke a bunch of packages
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Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages
After thousands of comments, they're now reconsidering: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4921
- Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust
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Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma
https://github.com/adang1345/delvewheel
> Runs your library's tests against the wheel-installed version of your library
Conda runs tests of installed packages;
Conda docs > Defining metadata (meta.yaml) https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resourc... :
> If this section exists or if there is a `run_test.[py,pl,sh,bat,r]` file in the recipe, the package is installed into a test environment after the build is finished and the tests are run there.
Things that support conda meta.yml declarative package metadata: conda and anaconda, mamba and mambaforge, picomamba and emscripten-forge, pixi / uv, repo2docker REES, and probably repo2jupyterlite (because jupyterlite's jupyterlite-xeus docs mention mamba but not yet picomamba) https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/configure...
The `setup.py test` command has been removed: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1684
`pip install -e .[tests]` expects extras_require['tests'] to include the same packages as the tests_require argument to setup.py:
- Vanilla Python Packaging
- Some packages are no longer installable after test command is removed
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An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages
> I _think_ it's because there a bdist in PyPI for one, and not the other, so `pip` is using different "backends" that normalize the names into `METADATA` differently... ugh.
That isn't why: it's because `cast-from-env`'s sdist is from March 2023, while PEP 625 (which strongly stipulates package name normalization) was adopted in setuptools a month later[1].
But to take a step back: why does the difference in `pip freeze` affect you? It shouldn't matter to `pip`, since PyPI will happily serve from both the normalized and unnormalized names.
[1]: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3593
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My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py
To be fair, that seems to have been a 2 year warning:
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/3544de73b3662a27fa...
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Python 3.12.0 from a supply chain security perspective
There was/is some discussion in setuptools about how to normalize the tarball (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2133#issuecomment-...) coudl something similar be applied to Building Python itself ?
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