Adopt pyproject.toml and Meson to build Python extension #148
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Hi, what more I need to do to get this PR merged? |
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Just for somebody to find the time to review it again. |
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Please allocate some time for this PR. |
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@hongquan Thanks for your contribution (and patience). |
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This looks great! Hopefully there'll be a new release cut and deployed to PyPi with this PR now merged so the PyPi project has a project description (readme) |
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A new release is planned after the current PR are addressed. |
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@behrmann Any planned release upcoming? I'm hitting the same issue trying to install this package using UV on non-linux dev machines. I think the next release that includes this merged PR will solve the problem |
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Motivation
I have a Django web project, which targets Linux server but some team members use MacOS for development. We use
uvas Python package manager. In the "dependency resolution" phase,uvtried to findsystemd-pythonmetadata but couldn't get what it wanted from the setup.py file. It had to buildsystemd-pythonwheel to get the metadata, then failed on MacOS machines.What this PR does
Adopt new pyproject.toml file, in place of setup.py. For building C code, I adopt Meson, which has meson-python as a build backend so that
pipor any other modern Python package manager can know how to build the C-based extensions.Because this new build process is done in an isolated environment and leave no *.so files, the Makefile is also updated to work with this new build method.
This is the rework of #147, but split to smaller steps.
At this step, I only make these 4 jobs work:
I don't move the other jobs from Makefile to Meson.
I also move the "systemd" folder (containing C & Py sources) to
srcfolder, to prevent importing by accident when standing at the top-level folder. This is also a common practice for many other Python projects.