[Slackbuilds-users] newer Python package building? (pip, setup.py becoming deprecated)

[David Chmelik]

On 10/30/24 9:53 PM, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 9:49 PM <dchmelik at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dchmelik at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Pip for Python may have existed 10+ years, but now some/many
>     UNIX/GNU/Linux operating system distributions are saying 'setup.py is
>     deprecated: use pip'.  The Python package I maintain (Mathics)
>     doesn't
>     even seem to install correctly with setup.py anymore since
>     mid-to-late
>     2010s.  Can we get a template to use pip, maybe with pip2tgz?
>
>
> Have you looked at the python template?
>
> https://slackbuilds.org/templates/python-template.SlackBuild 
> <https://slackbuilds.org/templates/python-template.SlackBuild>
I have it.
> It includes the commands to build when a pyproject.toml file is 
> present. It will require at least python3-build among other possible 
> dependencies. [...]
I don't know what that is, but I tried it and seems it'll work after I 
build dependencies.  I installed python3-setuptools-opt (v74) but 
mathics_scanner says it needs at least v70...