Let hatch build support non-hatchling backends?

[agoose77]

This is more of a discussion than a feature-request for now.

Is there a strong reason for requiring hatch build only support hatchling? Although hatch acknowledges that users might prefer to use only the build-backend from hatch, it's also possible that users would want to go the other direction - use hatch to manage their environments, but not build. From a cursory glance of the source code, I couldn't see any strong indication that we could not do this.

Looking forward to your comments!

[ofek]

This I've thought about but it would be an extraordinary amount of effort when one could just do:

[envs.build]
detached = true
dependencies = ["build"]

[envs.build.scripts]
all = "python -m build"
sdist = "python -m build --sdist"
wheel = "python -m build --wheel"

[astrojuanlu]

I saw some discussion at pyOpenSci/python-package-guide#55 (or maybe part 1, can't remember) about Hatch considering supporting other backends. Is that option still on the table? If so, maybe worth reopening this issue?

[ofek]

Yes I will do this for the next release

[astrojuanlu]

Is this still in the cards?

[ofek]

Thanks for following up! This has been supported for a few months now https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/history/hatch/#hatch-v1.8.0