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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sviatoslav Sydorenko 56036013cd
📦 Integrate manpage builds into PEP 517 build backend
This patch creates a thin wrapper around the `setuptools`' PEP 517
build backend in-tree. It features an ability to request generating
the manpage files in the process of building a source distribution.
This toggle is implemented using the `config_settings` mechanism of
PEP 517.
One must explicitly pass it a CLI option to the build front-end to
trigger said behavior. The packagers are expected to use the
following call:

    python -m build --config-setting=--build-manpages

This option has no effect on building wheels.

🧪 The change includes integration tests

This test runs building and re-building sdists and wheels with and
without the `--build-manpages` config setting under the
oldest-supported and new `setuptools` pinned.

It is intended to preserve the interoperability of the packaging setup
across Python runtimes.

An extra smoke test also verifies that non PEP 517 interfaces remain functional.

PR #79606


Co-authored-by: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
2 years ago