Refactor run_program() function

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Configure git
       run: |
-        git config --global user.name "GH-actions-bot"
-        git config --global user.email "gh-actions-bot@noreply.github.com"
+        git config --global user.name "Tester"
+        git config --global user.email "test@example.com"
 
     - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
     - run: uvx --with tox-uv tox -e py,docs,style

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Configure git
       run: |
-        git config --global user.name "GH-actions-bot"
-        git config --global user.email "gh-actions-bot@noreply.github.com"
+        git config --global user.name "Tester"
+        git config --global user.email "test@example.com"
 
     - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
     - run: uvx --with tox-uv tox -e py
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Configure git
       run: |
-        git config --global user.name "GH-actions-bot"
-        git config --global user.email "gh-actions-bot@noreply.github.com"
+        git config --global user.name "Tester"
+        git config --global user.email "test@example.com"
 
     - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
     - run: uvx --with tox-uv tox -e py

HISTORY.rst

@@ -2,14 +2,24 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-3.9.0 (2026-02-09)
+3.9.0 (2026-02-11)
 ------------------
 
 * Test with py3.14, publish sdist with py3.13
 
+* Removed commands: ``entrypoints``, ``cleanall``
+
 * Removed post-version-bump hook support (unused, unnecessary, and was not well documented)
 
-* Internal project modernizations (use ``uv``, ``ruff``, enabled more linter rules, etc)
+* Removed old ``register`` hook used with setuptools v50
+
+* Removed support for pygradle-style versioning
+
+* Internal project modernizations:
+
+    * Refactored usage of ``subrocess.run()``, removed last left overs from the py2 days
+
+    * use ``uv``, ``ruff``, enabled more linter rules, etc
 
 * Use coveralls_ for test coverage reporting
 

docs/commands.rst

@@ -106,40 +106,4 @@ Typical usage::
     python setup.py version --b minor --commit  # Effectively bump
 
 
-cleanall
-========
-
-Handily clean build artifacts. Cleans the usual suspects:
-``.cache/ .tox/ build/ dist/ venv/ __pycache__/ *.egg-info *.py[cod]``.
-
-Example::
-
-    🦎 3.9 ~/dev/github/setupmeta: ./setup.py cleanall
-    running cleanall
-    deleted .tox
-    deleted setupmeta.egg-info
-    deleted examples/direct/__pycache__
-    deleted examples/hierarchical/__pycache__
-    deleted examples/single/__pycache__
-    deleted setupmeta/__pycache__
-    deleted tests/__pycache__
-    deleted tests/scenarios/complex/tests/__pycache__
-    deleted tests/scenarios/readmes/__pycache__
-    deleted 14 .pyc files
-
-
-entrypoints
-===========
-
-This will simply show you your ``entry_points/console_scripts``.
-Can be handy for pygradle_ users.
-
-Example::
-
-    🦎 3.9 ~/github/pickley: python setup.py entrypoints
-
-    pickley = pickley.cli:protected_main
-
 .. _PEP-440: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
-
-.. _pygradle: https://github.com/linkedin/pygradle/

docs/versioning.rst

@@ -392,8 +392,14 @@ This is what ``versioning="post"`` is a shortcut for::
         ...
     )
 
+Note that starting with setupmeta v4.0, only ``v*.*`` tags are taken into account by default.
+The above complex ``versioning`` form will be the only way to continue using old ``*.*`` version tags...
+
+Prior to setupmeta v4.0, setupmeta used to look for ``v*.*`` first, and if it didn't find anything,
+it would "try harder" by falling back to looking for ``*.*``.
+
 ``version_tag`` is the glob pattern of git tags to consider as version tags.
-Unfortunately (for historical reasons), the default form is ``*.*`` (ie: any git tag
+Unfortunately (for historical reasons), the default form was ``*.*`` (ie: any git tag
 with a dot in it), and arguably should have been ``v*.*`` (ie: git tags that start with ``v``
 and have dot in them...)
 

examples/direct/expected.txt

@@ -54,8 +54,5 @@ direct = direct:main""",                                             # from entr
 :: check
 
 
-:: entrypoints
-direct = direct:main
-
 :: version
 1.0.0

examples/hierarchical/expected.txt

@@ -58,9 +58,5 @@ subm = hierarchical.submodule:main""",                                # from ent
 :: check
 
 
-:: entrypoints
-hierarchical = hierarchical:main
-subm = hierarchical.submodule:main
-
 :: version
 1.0.0

examples/single/expected.txt

@@ -39,8 +39,5 @@ setup(
 :: check
 
 
-:: entrypoints
-
-
 :: version
 0.1.0

examples/via-cfg/expected.txt

@@ -41,8 +41,5 @@ setup(
 :: check
 
 
-:: entrypoints
-pytest=pytest:main
-
 :: version
 1.2.3

pyproject.toml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ extend-select = [
     "T10", # flake8-debugger
     "TID", # flake8-tidy-imports
     "TCH", # flake8-type-checking
-    "TD", # flake8-todos
+#    "TD", # flake8-todos
     "TRY", # tryceratops
     "W",   # pycodestyle warnings
 ]

setup.py

@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 ENTRY_POINTS = """
 [distutils.commands]
 check = setupmeta.commands:CheckCommand
-cleanall = setupmeta.commands:CleanCommand
-entrypoints = setupmeta.commands:EntryPointsCommand
 explain = setupmeta.commands:ExplainCommand
 version = setupmeta.commands:VersionCommand
 
@@ -26,20 +24,13 @@
 """
 
 
-def decode(text):
-    if isinstance(text, bytes):
-        return text.decode("utf-8")
-
-    return text
-
-
 def run_bootstrap(message):
-    sys.stderr.write("--- Bootstrapping %s\n" % message)
-    p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "setup.py", "egg_info"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)  # noqa: S603
+    sys.stderr.write(f"--- Bootstrapping {message}\n")
+    p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "setup.py", "egg_info"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True)  # noqa: S603
     output, error = p.communicate()
     if p.returncode:
-        print(decode(output))
-        sys.stderr.write("%s\n" % decode(error))
+        print(output)
+        sys.stderr.write(f"{error}\n")
         sys.exit(p.returncode)
 
     if not os.path.isdir(EGG):
@@ -48,6 +39,7 @@ def run_bootstrap(message):
 
 def complete_args(args):
     args["setup_requires"] = ["setupmeta"]
+    args["install_requires"] = ["setuptools>=67"]
     args["versioning"] = "dev"