Merge pull request #1065 from abravalheri/main

docs: add note about opting into PEP 621
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Joe Rickerby
2022-04-01 16:52:10 +01:00
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@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ This option can also be set using the [command-line option](#command-line)
> Manually set the Python compatibility of your project
By default, cibuildwheel reads your package's Python compatibility from
`pyproject.toml` following [PEP621](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0621/)
`pyproject.toml` following the [project metadata specification](https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/declaring-project-metadata/)
or from `setup.cfg`; finally it will try to inspect the AST of `setup.py` for a
simple keyword assignment in a top level function call. If you need to override
this behaviour for some reason, you can use this option.
@@ -416,42 +416,29 @@ Default: reads your package's Python compatibility from `pyproject.toml`
`setup.py` `setup(python_requires="...")`. If not found, cibuildwheel assumes
the package is compatible with all versions of Python that it can build.
!!! note
Rather than using this option, it's recommended you set
`project.requires-python` in `pyproject.toml` instead:
Example `pyproject.toml`:
Rather than using this environment variable, it's recommended you set this value
statically in a way that your build backend can use it, too. This ensures
that your package's metadata is correct when published on PyPI. This
cibuildwheel-specific option is provided as an override, and therefore is only
available in environment variable form.
- If you have a `pyproject.toml` containing a `[project]` table, you can
specify `requires-python` there.
```toml
[project]
...
requires-python = ">=3.6"
```
# Aside - in pyproject.toml you should always specify minimal build
# system options, like this:
Note that not all build backends fully support using a `[project]` table yet;
specifically setuptools just added experimental support in version 61.
Adding `[project]` to `pyproject.toml` requires all the other supported
values to be specified there, or to be listed in `dynamic`.
[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=42", "wheel"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
Currently, setuptools has not yet added support for reading this value from
pyproject.toml yet, and so does not copy it to Requires-Python in the wheel
metadata. This mechanism is used by pip to scan through older versions of
your package until it finds a release compatible with the current version
of Python compatible when installing, so it is an important value to set if
you plan to drop support for a version of Python in the future.
If you don't want to list this value twice, you can also use the setuptools
specific location in `setup.cfg` and cibuildwheel will detect it from
there. Example `setup.cfg`:
[options]
python_requires = ">=3.6"
This option is not available in `pyproject.toml` under
`tool.cibuildwheel.project-requires-python`, since it should be set with the
[PEP621](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0621/) location instead,
`project.requires-python`.
- If you're using setuptools, [you can set this value in `setup.cfg` (preferred) or `setup.py`](https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/dependency_management.html#python-requirement)
and cibuildwheel will read it from there.
#### Examples