Packaging Metadata Comparions

Get an idea how various packaging systems declare metadata, in an effort to figure out how pyproject.toml should do it.

Topics

• Authors
• Dependency Entries
• Dependency Grouping
• Entry Points
• Include/Exclude Files
• Keywords
• License
• Long Description
• Project Name
• Project URLs
• Trove Classifiers
• Version

Please help out!

Find any mistakes or misunderstandings? Don’t agree with some observations? Think I should discuss a tool but haven’t? Have insights on a metadata field not yet mentioned?

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Some projects that are being looked at for comparison:

• Python
  • Flit (pyproject.toml details)
  • Setuptools (metadata table)
  • Poetry (pyproject.toml details)
  • Pipenv (for dependency usage, not building of wheels)
• Other languages
  • Cargo (Cargo.toml spec)
  • npm (package.json spec)