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Support setup.cfg use rather than setup.py

See original GitHub issue

I honestly don’t know what form an implementation of this would take nor whether the system allows a reasonable solution presently. But… There is a shift towards setup.cfg over setup.py. I am unaware of any way to define command classes in setup.cfg. Maybe something relating to in-tree backends? Though I’m not sure how you nicely compose those for projects with their own. And sure, by the time you include an in-tree backend, perhaps you are losing a chunk of the value of static setup.cfg files.

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effigiescommented, Sep 2, 2022

I think the correct thing would be not to use version at all but providing a build-backend that just fills in the version metadata for you. I’ll probably give this a shot in the near future, though others are welcome to jump in first.

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zerothicommented, Nov 3, 2021

To add to this, there is actually a move from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml. See #146

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