Following that definition, the project I mentioned is a library.
But quoting PEP 517 "Much experience suggests that large successful projects often originate as quick hacks".
I have another project which started as a command-line tool only, meant for the end-user to build, maintain, search, and update a data set. It was not designed to be called by another program, neither through import nor popen. Following the guideline, I should use poetry.
It then acquired a limited Python API so search functionality could be incorporated in a web app. One of my users paid for that feature. I don't know if others use it.
This turned my package into a library. Does that mean I should switch from poetry to flit?
There seem to be several people who have tackled that problem, including emscons, PyQt-builder, and mesonpep517, which all defer to an existing third-party build system. I don't use or have experience with any of the underlying build systems, and version numbers like 0.28.0 and 0.2 make me wary.
Are there others? Finding such modules on PyPI is not easy! A search for "517" is almost useless. Could there be a new trove category for such packages?
But quoting PEP 517 "Much experience suggests that large successful projects often originate as quick hacks".
I have another project which started as a command-line tool only, meant for the end-user to build, maintain, search, and update a data set. It was not designed to be called by another program, neither through import nor popen. Following the guideline, I should use poetry.
It then acquired a limited Python API so search functionality could be incorporated in a web app. One of my users paid for that feature. I don't know if others use it.
This turned my package into a library. Does that mean I should switch from poetry to flit?
There seem to be several people who have tackled that problem, including emscons, PyQt-builder, and mesonpep517, which all defer to an existing third-party build system. I don't use or have experience with any of the underlying build systems, and version numbers like 0.28.0 and 0.2 make me wary.
Are there others? Finding such modules on PyPI is not easy! A search for "517" is almost useless. Could there be a new trove category for such packages?