Fall back to build?

[effigies]

I'm currently hitting astral-sh/uv#5450 with uv build. This reproduces locally and in using build-and-inspect-python-package (see https://github.com/nipreps/smriprep/actions/runs/12284124195):

Package Contents

SDist contents

[2024-12-11T20:12:24Z]  smriprep-0.16.2.dev21+gc83f22d
...
├── [2024-12-11T20:12:24Z]  src
│   └── [2024-12-11T20:12:24Z]  smriprep
│       ├── ...
│       ├── [2024-12-11T20:12:24Z]  data
│       │   ├── [2024-12-11T20:11:55Z]  __init__.py
│       │   ├── [2024-12-11T20:12:24Z]  atlases
│       │   │   ├── ...
│       │   │   ├── [2024-12-11T20:11:55Z]  fsaverage.L_LR.spherical_std.164k_fs_LR.surf.gii
│       │   │   └── [2024-12-11T20:11:55Z]  fsaverage.R_LR.spherical_std.164k_fs_LR.surf.gii
│       │   └── ...
│       └── ...
└── ...

35 directories, 165 files

Wheel contents

smriprep-0.16.2.dev21+gc83f22d
├── smriprep
│   ├── ...
│   ├── data
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── atlases
│   │   │   ├── ...
│   │   │   ├── fsaverage.L_LR.spherical_std.164k_fs_LR.sur
│   │   │   └── fsaverage.R_LR.spherical_std.164k_fs_LR.surf.gii
│   │   └── ...
│   └── ...
└── smriprep-0.16.2.dev21+gc83f22d.dist-info
    ├── METADATA
    ├── RECORD
    ├── WHEEL
    ├── entry_points.txt
    └── licenses
        ├── LICENSE
        └── NOTICE

19 directories, 77 files

If I use pyproject-build, everything looks as it should:

> uvx --from=build pyproject-build --installer uv
> unzip -l dist/smriprep-0.16.2.dev32+g9b20042-py3-none-any.whl | grep atlases.fsaverage.._LR
    22:	  3614784  2020-02-02 00:00   smriprep/data/atlases/fsaverage.L_LR.spherical_std.164k_fs_LR.surf.gii
    23:	  3492005  2020-02-02 00:00   smriprep/data/atlases/fsaverage.R_LR.spherical_std.164k_fs_LR.surf.gii

Would it be possible to add a fallback option to use pyproject-build for cases where bugs are found in uv build?

[hynek]

Hm, we could add an option for choosing your build backend, however I would expect this bug to be fixed soonish – does pinning to 2.8.0 work for you in the meantime?

[effigies]

Thanks, that worked! Should have checked the changelog...

I'm still moderately for having an option to switch without reverting to an old (and eventually outdated) version, but I recognize that every option is a maintenance burden. So I won't be offended if this gets closed as wontfix.

Thanks for the great tool!

[effigies]

Just a note that I now need to pin hatchling to 1.26 to avoid generating metadata 2.4, which the twine pinned in the action version 2.8 rejects.