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

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

> the __name__ == '__main__' block never gets triggered in either case of programmatic imports.

Right. (Only when importing as stand-alone script,` __name__` is set to `"__main__"`. This is no real use case,so we can proceed as suggested.)

Regarding the `rst2*` entry-point functions, I still prefer to add this complication to `core.py` instead of `__main__.py`. However, we can defer this decision until we really use the functions.
The patches below contain the updated "minimal" changeset and documentation.


Attachments:

- [0001-Command-line-entry-point-to-the-docutils-package.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/_discuss/thread/e3c9702768/1490/360a/847b/99d4/ce67/attachment/0001-Command-line-entry-point-to-the-docutils-package.patch) (602 Bytes; text/x-patch)
- [0002-Command-line-entry-point-to-the-docutils-package.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/_discuss/thread/e3c9702768/1490/360a/847b/99d4/ce67/attachment/0002-Command-line-entry-point-to-the-docutils-package.patch) (33.4 kB; text/x-patch)


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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:** Thu May 26, 2022 01:24 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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