Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com>
* Package name : flit Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> * URL : https://github.com/takluyver/flit * License : BSD 3-clause license Programming Lang: Python Description : simple way to put Python packages and modules on PyPI Flit is a simple way to put Python packages and modules on PyPI. It tries to require less thought about packaging and help you avoid common mistakes. . Flit supports PEP 517 Python packaging. . Make the easy things easy and the hard things possible is an old motto from the Perl community. Flit is entirely focused on the easy things part of that, and leaves the hard things up to other tools. . Specifically, the easy things are pure Python packages with no build steps (neither compiling C code, nor bundling Javascript, etc.). The vast majority of packages on PyPI are like this: plain Python code, with maybe some static data files like icons included. I intend to maintain this in PAPT (Python Applications Packaging Team). PEP 517 style packages are becoming more common and while flit does generate a setup.py file for non-PEP 517 build system use, it is not particularly satisfying. I'm motivated to package this after having had to patch such a package to make it build complete metadata. Debian will be better off if we can use the upstream tools. Upstream provides a good discussion of why flit in addition to other Python oriented build tools: https://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rationale.html Flit does use flit to build, but it includes a bootstrap script so it can build itself without in archive bootstrapping.
