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wodenokoto on Oct 31, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py

I’m quite surprised to see that setup.py has been deprecated for years. I set out to setup my first package earlier this year and after spending way too much time trying to figure out what is recommended and why I actually settled on setup.py

I knew it was “the old” way, but didn’t realize it was abandoned.

Getting your code packaged seems way harder than developing your code.

ketozhang on Nov 1, 2023 [–]

It is not deprecated. Calling setup.py directly is (i.e., `python setup.py sdist`)

Modern way of building a package is to use a build frontend. Most notably is the PyPA's build package.

    python -m build .

Most project managers like poetry has this built-in with it's `poetry build` command.

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