Opinions on migrating requirements.txt dependencies to pyproject.toml?

[C-Loftus]

I am raising this to inquire what the maintainers think about transitioning from requirements.txt to pyproject.toml

My understanding is that more and more tools in the Python ecosystem are transitioning to centralizing all project development config within pyproject.toml as specified in pep 518

By switching to pyproject.toml the project would get

• increased interoperability with more python tooling
• the ability to move config files like pytest.ini into the pyproject.toml file and centralize configuration for development tooling
• standardized dependency groups according to pep 735 instead of separate requirements files
• more flexibility regarding specifying versions of dependencies
• the ability to remove setup.py. My understanding is that setup.py is older and historically has had security concerns due to allowing arbitrary code execution during build time.

[geographika]

@C-Loftus - @tomkralidis recently updated OWSLib to use pyproject.toml - see geopython/OWSLib#1031

I'm in favour, although slightly disappointed the new approach still requires MANIFEST.in, has a strange configuration for setuptools, and doesn't support some tool configs yet (flake8, twine).

[tomkralidis]

Thanks @geographika. FYI @C-Loftus we are moving various Geopython projects to pyproject for project configuration, which will help evaluate/test accordingly. We'll address this as part of 0.24 and in concert with #1753.

[C-Loftus]

Makes sense. Thanks both 👍

doesn't support some tool configs yet (flake8, twine).

I am less familiar with MANIFEST.in but regarding tools, I believe the blocker on tooling is generally on the tool side (i.e. flake8 doesn't support it due to the personal preference of the maintainer). I don't believe there is any limitation in pyproject.toml itself. For what its worth, there are ways to use ruff (which is configurable natively in pyproject.toml) in a flake8 compatible way. Just wanted to raise that may be of interest.

[tomkralidis]

We use flake8 as a rule.