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

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

> What does `python3 -c "import locale;
> print(locale.getlocale())"` print on your computer?

The following test script

    import locale, time
    print(locale.getlocale())
    print('before setlocale()', time.strftime('%c'))
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
    print('after setlocale()', time.strftime('%c'))

prints

    ('de_DE', 'UTF-8')
    before setlocale() Mon Jan 17 09:29:41 2022
    after setlocale() Mo 17 Jan 2022 09:29:41 CET

IMO, it is an intended Python feature that the `locale` module can be
imported without automatic "opt-in" to the localisation services.


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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:** Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:49 PM 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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