I'm trying to add a pyproject.toml
to a project that's been using setup.py
in order to enable support by pipx. I'd like to specify the command line scripts the project includes in pyproject.toml
, but all the guides I can find give instructions for use with poetry, which I am not using.
I also don't want to specify entry points to modules - I already have working command line scripts and just want to specify those.
Is there a proper place in pyproject.toml
to specify command line scripts?
Not sure it matters, but the package in question is cutlet.
Is there a proper place in pyproject.toml to specify command line scripts?
PEP566 (Metadata 2.1) only defines Core metadata specifications. Thus, the answer depends on your build system (Note: PEP518 defines build system concept).
If you use the existing build tools such as setuptools
, poetry
, and flit
, you only can consider adding such options in pyproject.toml if that tool supports command line scripts (console_scripts
) in pyproject.toml. Surely, if you have your own build tool, you need to implement a parser to parse the command line scripts in pyproject.toml.
Lastly, you can check below list to know which major build system supports command line scripts (console_scripts
) in pyproject.toml (2020/Oct):