Switch to hatchling?

[hynek]

I'm currently three layers¹ deep yak-shaving, but given that:

1. pip / setuptools interaction is broken on 3.12
2. Twisted has switched to hatchling

Would ya'll be interested to move towncrier to a static config too? Given the simplicity of our setup.py, it should be a simple switcheroo.

Footnotes

1. I wanted to simplify our CI according to https://hynek.me/articles/why-i-like-nox/, but we have no pre-release so I wanted to add a pre-release, but just adding 3.12 to the noxfile explodes as explained in 1. ↩

[altendky]

I've never worked with hatchling, but as you say, this is a pretty simple project and it shouldn't be a big deal. No concerns from me.

What exactly is the need to switch to make pre-releases?

[hynek]

It doesn't, but I want to add the block that unpacks pre-release identifiers (~3.12...) to a normal version (3.12) and it would be pointless if there were no pre-release identifier in the matrix. :)

[adiroiban]

Should be ok to switch. Thanks for looking into this.

[hynek]

ref #467 as a reminder