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Add [tools.setuptools_scm] to pyproject.toml

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Description

I noticed that GitHub can’t build a dependency graph for astropy at https://github.com/astropy/astropy/network/dependencies because we use a setup.cfg not setup.py or pyproject.toml. Looking at https://pypi.org/project/setuptools-scm/ setup.cfg and setup.py are deprecated and pyproject.toml is the new standard. I haven’t looked into the downstream effects, so maybe a @astropy/core-release-maintainers could weigh in, but it seems we should begin transitioning as much as we can to pyproject.toml.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:17 (17 by maintainers)

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Cadaircommented, Oct 29, 2021

I think at the time we added the scm line to setup.py it was still recommended for backwards compat in their docs. @astrofrog and I are already scheming to see if we can burn the whole setup.py file 😉 https://github.com/astropy/extension-helpers/issues/32

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astrofrogcommented, Oct 29, 2021

As an aside, the fact that GitHub can’t use setup.cfg is a GitHub ‘bug’ rather than an issue with our infrastructure 😂

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