2020-0621-Storing-project-metadata-in-pyproject.toml
https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/
Motivation
The key motivators of this PEP are:
- Encourage users to specify core metadata statically for speed, ease of specification, unambiguity, and deterministic consumption by build back-ends
- Provide a tool-agnostic way of specifying metadata for ease of learning and transitioning between build back-ends
- Allow for more code sharing between build back-ends for the “boring parts” of a project’s metadata
Specification
The lack of a [project] table implicitly means the build back-end will dynamically provide all fields