Feature request: PEP 621 support in sip

[Phil Thompson]

On 15/10/2023 00:33, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> These days, build backends normally accept basic project metadata 
> (authors,
> dependencies, etc.) as specified in PEP 621:
> 
> https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/
> 
> https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/declaring-project-metadata/#declaring-project-metadata
> 
> sip, however, directly translates [tool.sip.metadata] fields to core 
> metadata
> fields.
> 
> While not so important, it would be cool to have this harmonized with 
> other
> parts of the packaging ecosystem.

This will be in the next snapshot - not heavily tested as I'm not using 
it myself yet.

Phil