bug#69997: Should ‘guix import pypi’ get dependencies from pyproject files?

[Tanguy LE CARROUR]

Hi,


Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2024-03-26 17:04:52)
> Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> skribis:
> > So, my answer would be: do not import from PyPI! Yes, I know, it’s radical! 
> > 😅
> > But if you have to, rely on the wheel’s `METADATA` file.
> >
> > I hope this make sense. … I’m not really sure any more! 😅
> 
> It does!
> 
> But then I mean, we could offer, say, ‘guix import upstream https://…’,
> and that thing could parse ‘setup.py’ or similar to produce a package
> definition from that.

I’m not against a good-old-generic-solution®, but this one might be
a bit… too generic. It contains no mention to Python, so the next logical step
would be `guix import URL`. Not that I would not like it, though! 😁

So I would say… let’s wait and see what the others think. In the
meantime, I’ll have to dive deeper in the PEP and the actual importer
code.


> Maybe that’s what you had in mind: import straight from upstream rather than 
> via PyPI?

I actually had nothing in mind! I blacked out after sending this email.
Too many emotions at once, I guess! I had no clue it was such a mess. 😅

-- 
Tanguy