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[TODO][research] Possibly integrate `pyproject-metadata`

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#2,074 opened on Mar 26, 2024

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Description

It's been recently adopted by the PyPA and provides validation capabilities that might be useful to us: https://github.com/pypa/pyproject-metadata. My understanding is that it's going to be a transitive dep regardless so we might as well make use of it too.

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python
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tooling
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Basic PythonUnderstanding of pip toolsFamiliarity with pyproject.toml
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35
Research direction
Research the pyproject metadata library (https://github.com/pypa/pyproject metadata) to understand its validation capabilities. Investigate how pip tools currently handles pyproject.toml metadata, possibly in the `pip tools` module. Determine if integrating pyproject metadata would reduce duplicated code or improve validation. Look at existing discussions in the issue comments for more context.