I’m looking at adding pants to a little project to manage linting, building wheels, etc for me. I’d like to use the setuptools via a PEP 517 build backend instead of using a generated setup.py. https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-distributions#background-setuptools-and-pep-517 So, are there any examples of something like this? I’m wondering what metadata should go in BUILD

python_distribution

, vs in

[project]

in the

pyproject.toml

file. Does pants read anything out of the

[project]

table or just out of the

[build-system]

table? edit: a quick code-search suggests pants only uses

[build-system]

Or would it be better to skip

[project]

and keep everything in the BUILD file? If pants is not generating the setup.py, then how does that information get to the PEP 517 build-backend?