Re: devel/py-setuptools_scm >= 7.0.0

From: Moin Rahman <bofh_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:21:35 UTC 

> On Mar 15, 2023, at 12:16 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Currently the ports has devel/py-setuptools_scm at version 6.4.2, but I'm seeing some python packages now wanting setup_tools_scm >= 7.0.0
> 
> Now, setuptools_scm is widely depended upon by many python packages, and updating it over a major version boundary would probably cause all sorts of problems.
> 
> So, does anyone have any objections to my creating a devel/py-setuptools_scm7 port for the latest version, currently 7.1.0?
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew

Apart from creating another port I would also advise whether if you can add a feature knob for setuptools_scm in python.mk.

Kind regards,
Moin