Release 25.0

[ichard26]

I'm filing this early, but given the current pace of development, it can't possibly hurt :)

Looking at the current state of the milestone, there are a handful of deprecated features scheduled for removal during this release cycle:

• Removal of egg support entirely (Remove support for installed eggs distributions #12308)
• Removal of --build-option and --global-option (Remove --global-option and --build-option flags #12301)
• Removal of the legacy editable install mechanism

There's also the upgrade to vendoring 1.1.0 which will bring significant improvements.

@sbidoul, is setuptools any closer to being prepared for the removal of --build-option and --global-option?

[ichard26]

Oh! and how I could forgot the last major potential change: removal of Python 3.8 support. I haven't looked at the numbers recently, but we need to consider that as well.

[sbidoul]

is setuptools any closer to being prepared for the removal of --build-option and --global-option?

I don't think so. I filed #13106 accordingly.

[ichard26]

For whoever decides to be the next RM, just a heads-up: we'd like to switch to using an action to build (not prepare) and push the release, using Trusted Publishing and all of the new fancy stuff that comes with that. See #13048.

[ichard26]

Looking closer at my schedule, I will be too busy to be a RM right until January 30 next year, so if there is no one that is able to be the RM, I could do it on either a tight schedule (aka that weekend) or push the release by a week or two. Of course, I'm also new at this, so I'd definitely want to have a former RM available for questions :)

[sbidoul]

I'm happy to take on the RM hat for this release again. I'll take the opportunity to test and document the trusted publisher workflow.