PEP 517
A key standard in the Python packaging ecosystem that defines the build process and interface specification for converting source packages into wheels. It introduces the abstract role of the build backend, allowing multiple backends such as setuptools, hatchling, and flit to coexist.
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uv-build is a PEP 517 build backend provided by uv, used to replace traditional build backends such as setuptools, hatchling, and flit, and is responsible for building source packages into wheels.
PEP 517 defines the build process and interface specification from source packages to wheels, introduces the role of the build backend, and requires projects to declare build-backend and requires in the [build-system] table of pyproject.toml, based on which installation tools invoke standard hooks such as build_wheel in an isolated environment.
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uv-build is a PEP 517 build backend provided by uv, used to replace traditional build backends such as setuptools, hatchling, and flit, and is responsible for building source packages into wheels.
50%UnverifiedPEP 517 defines the build process and interface specification from source packages to wheels, introduces the role of the build backend, and requires projects to declare build-backend and requires in the [build-system] table of pyproject.toml, based on which installation tools invoke standard hooks such as build_wheel in an isolated environment.
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