Version 3.6
flit_core now bundles the tomli TOML parser library (version 1.2.3) to avoid a circular dependency between flit_core and tomli
Version 3.5.1
Fix development installs with flit install --symlink and --pth-file, which were broken in 3.5.0, especially for packages using a src folder
Version 3.5
You can now use Flit to distribute a module or package inside a namespace package (as defined by PEP 420). To do this, specify the import name of the concrete, inner module you are packaging - e.g. name = "sphinxcontrib.foo" - either in the [project] table, or under [tool.flit.module] if you want to use a different name on PyPI
Flit no longer generates a setup.py file in sdists (.tar.gz packages) by default
Fixed how flit init handles authors' names with non-ASCII characters
When flit init generates a LICENSE file, the new pyproject.toml now references it
Version 3.4
Python 3.6 or above is now required, both for flit and flit_core.
Add a --setup-py option to flit build and flit publish, and a warning when neither this nor --no-setup-py are specified
Add support for standardised editable installs - pip install -e - according to PEP 660
Add a --pypirc option for flit publish to specify an alternative path to a .pypirc config file describing package indexes
Fix installing dependencies specified in a [project] table
Fix building wheels when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (see :doc:`reproducible`) is set to a date before 1980
Switch to using the tomli TOML parser, in common with other packaging projects
Add a document on :doc:`bootstrap`
Version 3.3
PKG-INFO files in sdists are now generated the same way as METADATA in wheels, fixing some issues with sdists
flit publish now sends SHA-256 hashes, fixing uploads to GitLab package repositories
The [project] metadata table from PEP 621 is now fully supported and :ref:`documented <pyproject_toml_project>`. Projects using this can now specify requires = ["flit_core >=3.2,<4"] in the [build-system] table.
Version 3.2
Experimental support for specifying metadata in a [project] table in pyproject.toml as specified by PEP 621
Fix writing METADATA file with multi-line information in certain fields such as Author
Fix building wheel when a directory such as LICENSES appears in the project root directory
Version 3.1
Update handling of names & version numbers in wheel filenames and .dist-info folders in line with changes in the specs
Switch from the deprecated pytoml package to toml
Fix specifying backend-path in pyproject.toml for flit-core (as a list instead of a string).
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