v62.3.0

Deprecations

* #3262: Formally added deprecation messages for ``namespace_packages``.

The methodology that uses ``pkg_resources`` and ``namespace_packages`` for

creating namespaces was already discouraged by the :doc:`setuptools docs

</userguide/package_discovery>` and the

:doc:`Python Packaging User Guide <PyPUG:guides/packaging-namespace-packages>`,

therefore this change just make the deprecation more official.

Users can consider migrating to native/implicit namespaces (as introduced in

:pep:`420`).

* #3308: Relying on ``include_package_data`` to ensure sub-packages are automatically

added to the build wheel distribution (as "data") is now considered a

deprecated practice.

This behaviour was controversial and caused inconsistencies (#3260).

Instead, projects are encouraged to properly configure ``packages`` or use

discovery tools. General information can be found in :doc:`userguide/package_discovery`.

Changes

* #1806: Allowed recursive globs (`**`) in `package_data`. -- by :user:`nullableVoidPtr`

* #3206: Fixed behaviour when both ``install_requires`` (in ``setup.py``) and

``dependencies`` (in ``pyproject.toml``) are specified.

The configuration in ``pyproject.toml`` will take precedence over ``setup.py``

(in accordance with PEP 621). A warning was added to inform users.

Documentation changes

* #3307: Added introduction to references/keywords

Added deprecation tags to test kwargs

Moved userguide/keywords to deprecated section

Clarified in deprecated doc what keywords came from distutils and which were added or changed by setuptools

Misc

* #3274: Updated version of vendored ``pyparsing`` to 3.0.8 to avoid problems with

upcoming deprecation in Python 3.11.

* #3292: Added warning about incompatibility with old versions of

``importlib-metadata``.

version = 62.3.0