PyProject.toml

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Sister PR: https://github.com/serpilliere/miasm-rs/pull/77

The pyproject.toml file was introduced in PEP 518 as a single source of truth for package information, in particular build-time dependencies. It simplifies development by giving to automated tools all information they need.

Concretely, here is how installing miasm looked like previously:

apt-get install python-setuptools  # Debian-only
cd miasm
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r optional_requirements.txt  # or select just the ones you want
pip install .

Here is how it looks like now:

cd miasm-rs
pip install .

This gives more flexibility with regards to optional dependencies. For example if you previously wanted Z3 but not the other optional dependencies:

pip install z3-solver==<version>  # not 'pip install z3'!
pip install .

Now, it's possible to just:

pip install '.[z3]'

To install all optional dependencies:

pip install '.[full]'

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This optional dependency management carries over via PyPI: if this is ever published there, pip install miasm[llvm] will allow users to install Miasm with llvmlite without having to look at the versions in the optional_requirements.txt file, etc.