Add fake setup.py

[Kludex]

This is quite sad.

@michaeloliverx brought this to our attention on: 45b7cfa#commitcomment-82042745.

The Used by section on the project's profile disappeared after we removed the setup.py. We can either accept this PR or revert #2334, to have it back,

I'll let you folks decide @florimondmanca @tomchristie 🙏

I'll update the Starlette and Uvicorn according to what is decided here.

Closes #2352

[michaeloliverx]

This is the same solution as urllib3 has taken. You can read a bit more about it at https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/preparing-for-the-wave-of-open-source-funding#dependency-chain-metadata.

Edit:

Probably good to link the underlying problem. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/6456

[Kludex]

Flask does this: https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/setup.py#L3-L16

[florimondmanca]

That’s a raging GitHub limitation. I’d be okay with this PR; happier to use newest standards than stick to oldest because GH is lagging behind. The sad part is we’d have to do this and duplicate dependency declaration every project. So I’m on the fence…

[Kludex]

How we decide here?

[Kludex]

I've created #2352 as an alternative to this PR.

[tomchristie]

"Flask does this" is a pretty good argument. 😅

The sad part is we’d have to do this and duplicate dependency declaration every project. So I’m on the fence…

Indeed. I'm not wild about it either, but the pallets team have this on all their repos. Probably an okay solution for now.

[Kludex]

"Flask does this" is a pretty good argument. 😅

The sad part is we’d have to do this and duplicate dependency declaration every project. So I’m on the fence…

Indeed. I'm not wild about it either, but the pallets team have this on all their repos. Probably an okay solution for now.

Since that's the case. Shall we choose this PR?

[Kludex]

I'll merge this tonight if no objections are made. 🙏

Thanks @michaeloliverx 🙏