[Docutils-develop] [docutils:patches] #186 Modernise packaging

[Adam T. <aa-...@us...>]

A further change could be to deprecate/remove the `rst2*` tools in favour of the unified `docutils-cli` tool that was added a couple of versions ago -- this would simplifiy the command line usage space and perhaps enable further simplifications in the logic for using doctuils as a library.

If you'd like me to do this more than happy to -- I think it would be pretty simple.

A


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** [patches:#186] Modernise packaging**

**Status:** open
**Group:** None
**Created:** Fri Dec 31, 2021 03:16 AM UTC by Adam  Turner
**Last Updated:** Fri Dec 31, 2021 03:20 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
**Attachments:**

- [0001-Use-flit-and-pyproject.toml.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/186/attachment/0001-Use-flit-and-pyproject.toml.patch) (12.2 kB; application/octet-stream)
- [0002-Use-entry-points.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/186/attachment/0002-Use-entry-points.patch) (20.7 kB; application/octet-stream)
- [0003-update-docs-etc-after-packaging-changes.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/186/attachment/0003-update-docs-etc-after-packaging-changes.patch) (49.3 kB; application/octet-stream)


Hi,

I had a go at modernising the packaging stack. `setup.py` based invocations have been deprecated (https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html), and setuptools may remove them in the future. 

This takes the opportunity to move to a PEP 621 based declarative config, and also fixes a longstanding TODO item about providing script wappers for the frontend tools on windows, by migrating them to entry points.

I've updated install and development docs with the new guidance, and updated references to the frontend tools to remove `.py`, given they are now installed as proper scripts.

Hope this is appreciated -- happy to make revisions etc to help getting this merged.

A


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