Thomas Kluyver

The branch was my idea. I'm OK with reverting the change on master if people prefer.

Thanks Pradyun for helping out with it.

It will probably be a few days before I get to it, but any pypa committer should be able to make a release (see RELEASE.rst). On Tue, 31 Aug 2021,...

The `pep517.meta` module is [deprecated](https://github.com/pypa/pep517#deprecated-high-level), along with everything which uses the `envbuild` module. This package has never been a good way to build packages, it was only implemented as a...

Yup, the canonical format for [Python packaging metadata](https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/core-metadata/) is based on email headers. When it was first defined in 2001, JSON either didn't exist or was something new and unfamiliar....

I think from what you describe, `build.util.project_wheel_metadata()` should be useful. `importlib.metadata` (the new way), `importlib-metadata` (the same backported to older Python versions) and `pkg_resources` (the older way) are all meant...

I'm open to ideas for other names, but at present I tend to think that `pep517` is still the clearest, least ambiguous way to refer to this. To my mind,...

Thanks! Where do you want to go from here? Are you going to move pyproject-hooks to the PyPA namespace? Does it need a vote as a new project, or can...

I can initiate the vote if you'd like. :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks @pradyunsg for dealing with most of the admin stuff around the name change. :slightly_smiling_face: