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| author | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2020-05-03 05:59:41 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-05-03 05:59:41 -0400 |
| commit | cc5b5ec305100ecd897edfc7918f184ffc93c197 (patch) | |
| tree | b2004492da7532bfda879cb56450236bb37be282 /docs | |
| parent | d2a64aebe4fd7b02c9d05a0cac30faac38f18977 (diff) | |
| download | python-setuptools-git-cc5b5ec305100ecd897edfc7918f184ffc93c197.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/docs/build_meta.txt b/docs/build_meta.txt index 67497891..ef9fb2ac 100644 --- a/docs/build_meta.txt +++ b/docs/build_meta.txt @@ -34,12 +34,8 @@ package and distribute Python modules. Under PEP 517: ``pyproject.toml`` and decide what program to use to 'build from source' (the default is ``setuptools``) -With this standard, switching between packaging tools becomes a lot easier and -in the case of ``setuptools``, ``setup.py`` becomes optional. - -``build_meta`` is ``setuptools``'s implementation of PEP 517. It provides the -two functions, ``build_wheel`` and ``build_sdist`` amongst others, and uses -a ``setup.cfg`` to specify the information about the package. +With this standard, switching between packaging tools becomes a lot easier. ``build_meta`` +implements ``setuptools``' build system support. How to use it? -------------- @@ -60,9 +56,7 @@ setuptools, the content would be:: requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"] build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta" -Use ``setup.cfg`` to specify your package information, specified -`here <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#configuring --setup-using-setup-cfg-files>`_ :: +Use ``setuptools``' `declarative config`_ to specify the package information:: [metadata] name = meowpkg |