[cmake] Produce python .dist-info metadata#22688
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Very nice work! I have a couple of comments:
- We would require a follow-up PR as the
try/exceptblock we added for thePackageNotFoundErrorshould in principle no longer be needed here thanks to your addition in this PR - I have a small doubt about how to handle the synchronization between the metadata in this
METADATA.intemplate and thepyproject.tomlsince it's hard coded here, say for exampleRequires-Distevolves to not only includenumpy, there is no mechanism that enforces applying changes in both files, thus metadata could quietly diverge, do we want to document that changes should be always applied to both files? Do we want to think of a way to generate the template by parsingpyproject.toml? ...
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Thank you! A couple of suggestions for improvement before running the CI
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@vepadulano Suggestions should be applied now, along with a fix for failing windows builds |
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Workflow running, let's see what the CI says |
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This Pull request:
Makes the ROOT Python import package compatible with
importlib.metadata's metadata system.Changes or fixes:
Adds a cmake module that places a METADATA and INSTALLER files inside a
root-<version>.dist-infofolder on thePYTHONPATH, which importlib.metadata can access to query e.g. distribution package version.This metadata is already present in the wheel distribution courtesy of the build backend, but is absent in all other ROOT distributions.
importlib.metadata.version()will throw an exception if called on a ROOT source build, but works just fine for wheels. This PR's change standardizes this behavior.See https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/recording-installed-packages/ for python's official spec.
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