MRG: Use hatchling as build backend

.git_archival.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+node: $Format:%H$
+node-date: $Format:%cI$
+describe-name: $Format:%(describe:tags=true,match=*[0-9]*)$
+ref-names: $Format:%D$

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.git_archival.txt  export-subst

.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install ruff check-manifest
+        python -m pip install ruff
     - name: Display versions and environment information
       run: |
         python --version
@@ -61,15 +61,15 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install wheel setuptools build twine
+        python -m pip install build twine
 
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Build sdist
       run: python -m build --sdist
     - name: Check sdist
       run: twine check --strict dist/*
     - name: Install sdist
-      run: python -m pip install ./dist/mne-bids-*
+      run: python -m pip install ./dist/mne_bids-*
     - name: Clean up working directory
       run: rm -rf ./*
     - name: Try importing mne_bids

Makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: all clean-pyc clean-so clean-build clean-ctags clean-cache clean-e clean inplace test check-manifest ruff-check ruff-format pep build-doc dist-build
+.PHONY: all clean-pyc clean-so clean-build clean-ctags clean-cache clean-e clean inplace test ruff-check ruff-format pep build-doc dist-build
 
 all: clean inplace pep test build-doc dist-build
 
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ test:
 	--ignore mne-python \
 	--ignore examples
 
-check-manifest:
-	@echo "Checking MANIFEST.in"
-	@check-manifest .
-
 ruff-format:
 	@echo "Running ruff format"
 	@ruff format mne_bids/
@@ -51,7 +47,7 @@ ruff-check:
 	@ruff check mne_bids/
 	@ruff check examples/ --ignore=D103,D400,D205
 
-pep: ruff-check check-manifest ruff-format
+pep: ruff-check ruff-format
 
 build-doc:
 	@echo "Building documentation"
@@ -62,6 +58,6 @@ build-doc:
 dist-build:
 	@echo "Building dist"
 	rm -rf dist
-	@python -m pip install wheel setuptools build twine
+	@python -m pip install build twine
 	@python -m build
 	@python -m twine check --strict dist/*

doc/whats_new.rst

@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ Detailed list of changes
 🧐 API and behavior changes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-- nothing yet
+- The package build backend has been switched from ``setuptools`` to ``hatchling``. This
+  only affects users who build and install MNE-BIDS from source, and should not lead to
+  changed runtime behavior, by `Richard Höchenberger`_ (:gh:`1204`)
 
 🛠 Requirements
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

mne_bids/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 """MNE software for easily interacting with BIDS compatible datasets."""
 
-__version__ = "0.15.dev0"
+try:
+    from importlib.metadata import version
+
+    __version__ = version("mne_bids")
+except Exception:
+    __version__ = "0.0.0"
+
 from mne_bids import commands
 from mne_bids.report import make_report
 from mne_bids.path import (

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-vcs"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "mne-bids"
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 scripts = { mne_bids = "mne_bids.commands.run:main" }
 dependencies = ["mne>=1.5", "numpy>=1.21.2", "scipy>=1.7.1"]
+
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 # Variants with dependencies that will get installed on top of those listed unter
 # project.dependencies
@@ -57,14 +58,7 @@ full = [
 ]
 
 # Dependencies for running the test infrastructure
-test = [
-    "mne_bids[full]",
-    "pytest",
-    "pytest-cov",
-    "pytest-sugar",
-    "check-manifest",
-    "ruff",
-]
+test = ["mne_bids[full]", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-sugar", "ruff"]
 
 # Dependencies for building the documentation
 doc = [
@@ -80,7 +74,7 @@ doc = [
     "mne-nirs @ https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-nirs/archive/refs/heads/main.zip",
     "seaborn",
     "openneuro-py",
-    "defusedxml",  # for reading BrainVision montages: `examples/convert_eeg_to_bids.py`
+    "defusedxml",                                                                   # for reading BrainVision montages: `examples/convert_eeg_to_bids.py`
 ]
 
 # Dependencies for developer installations
@@ -94,14 +88,24 @@ dev = ["mne_bids[test,doc,full]", "pre-commit"]
 "Forum" = "https://mne.discourse.group/"
 "Source Code" = "https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-bids"
 
-[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
-where = ["."]
-include = ["mne_bids"]
-exclude = ["tests"]
-namespaces = false
+[tool.hatch.metadata]
+allow-direct-references = true # allow specifying URLs in our dependencies
+
+[tool.hatch.build]
+exclude = [
+    "/.*",
+    "**/tests",
+    "/paper",
+    "/examples",
+    "/doc",
+    "/Makefile",
+    "/CITATION.cff",
+    "/CONTRIBUTING.md",
+]
 
-[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
-version = { attr = "mne_bids.__version__" }
+[tool.hatch.version]
+source = "vcs"
+raw-options = { version_scheme = "release-branch-semver" }
 
 [tool.ruff]
 select = ["E", "F", "W", "D", "I"]