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@indygreg indygreg commented Sep 2, 2021

I have a use case in PyOxidizer where I want to use the
pyo3-build-config crate as a library crate so I can access the
InterpreterConfig struct so I can read/write config files without
reinventing the wheel.

This is doable before this commit. But it requires that the
build environment have a Python interpreter. This is undesirable
for library usage.

This commit introduces a cargo feature flag to control whether the
build script does anything. The feature flag must be present for
the build script to resolve a config. The feature flag is enabled
by default for backwards compatibility. The pyo3 and pyo3-macros-backend
crates use this feature by default, for backwards compatibility and
because it is the reasonable default.

This is probably room to conditionalize some APIs and other behavior
based on this feature flag. But we stop short of doing that for
the time being.

I have a use case in PyOxidizer where I want to use the
pyo3-build-config crate as a library crate so I can access the
`InterpreterConfig` struct so I can read/write config files without
reinventing the wheel.

This is doable before this commit. But it requires that the
build environment have a Python interpreter. This is undesirable
for library usage.

This commit introduces a cargo feature flag to control whether the
build script does anything. The feature flag must be present for
the build script to resolve a config. The feature flag is enabled
by default for backwards compatibility. The pyo3 and pyo3-macros-backend
crates use this feature by default, for backwards compatibility and
because it is the reasonable default.

This is probably room to conditionalize some APIs and other behavior
based on this feature flag. But we stop short of doing that for
the time being.
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👍 as discussed on indygreg/PyOxidizer#433 I think this makes sense to enable programmatic use case of pyo3-build-config!

@davidhewitt davidhewitt merged commit afd4d46 into PyO3:main Sep 2, 2021
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indygreg added a commit to indygreg/pyo3 that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2021
PR PyO3#1856 was buggy in that the `pyo3-build-config` crate didn't actually
work in library mode because `include_str!()` was attempting to resolve
missing files as part of populating some `const` values.

We could change the logic of these constants to make them lazy if
we wanted to support possibly getting access to the value. But the
simple solution is to conditionalize their presence on the crate
feature.

Test coverage for building and testing the crate in insolation with the
feature disabled has been added.

Various code has been conditionalized to avoid compiler warnings.

Also, it appears `cargo build|test -p pyo3-build-config
--no-default-features` still passes default features. This seems wrong
to me. But it is how my system behaves. Maybe it is an sccache bug?
I coded the new tests to `cd pyo3-build-config` first to work around.
indygreg added a commit to indygreg/pyo3 that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2021
PR PyO3#1856 was buggy in that the `pyo3-build-config` crate didn't actually
work in library mode because `include_str!()` was attempting to resolve
missing files as part of populating some `const` values.

We could change the logic of these constants to make them lazy if
we wanted to support possibly getting access to the value. But the
simple solution is to conditionalize their presence on the crate
feature.

Test coverage for building and testing the crate in insolation with the
feature disabled has been added.

Various code has been conditionalized to avoid compiler warnings.

Also, it appears `cargo build|test -p pyo3-build-config
--no-default-features` still passes default features. This seems wrong
to me. But it is how my system behaves. Maybe it is an sccache bug?
I coded the new tests to `cd pyo3-build-config` first to work around.
indygreg added a commit to indygreg/pyo3 that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2021
PR PyO3#1856 was buggy in that the `pyo3-build-config` crate didn't actually
work in library mode because `include_str!()` was attempting to resolve
missing files as part of populating some `const` values.

We could change the logic of these constants to make them lazy if
we wanted to support possibly getting access to the value. But the
simple solution is to conditionalize their presence on the crate
feature.

Test coverage for building and testing the crate in insolation with the
feature disabled has been added.

Various code has been conditionalized to avoid compiler warnings.

Also, it appears `cargo build|test -p pyo3-build-config
--no-default-features` still passes default features. This seems wrong
to me. But it is how my system behaves. Maybe it is an sccache bug?
I coded the new tests to `cd pyo3-build-config` first to work around.
davidhewitt pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2021
PR #1856 was buggy in that the `pyo3-build-config` crate didn't actually
work in library mode because `include_str!()` was attempting to resolve
missing files as part of populating some `const` values.

We could change the logic of these constants to make them lazy if
we wanted to support possibly getting access to the value. But the
simple solution is to conditionalize their presence on the crate
feature.

Test coverage for building and testing the crate in insolation with the
feature disabled has been added.

Various code has been conditionalized to avoid compiler warnings.

Also, it appears `cargo build|test -p pyo3-build-config
--no-default-features` still passes default features. This seems wrong
to me. But it is how my system behaves. Maybe it is an sccache bug?
I coded the new tests to `cd pyo3-build-config` first to work around.
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