pypa/flit

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Simplified packaging of Python modules

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Dominant language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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105 open issues indexed

Licensing: flit-core sources include vendored tomli - different licence Open

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pypa/flit#788 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2026
PEP 770: Support ``.dist-info/sboms`` directory in wheels Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pypa/flit#769 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Recursive glob fails to exclude files from sdist Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#746 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Flit removes VCS check for ignored files when `--format wheel` is used Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#743 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Allow populating (purelib|platlib|headers|scripts) Open

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pypa/flit#741 · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Wrong/misleading metadata if multiple maintainers are set Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#720 · 10 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2025
Document the requisite internal structure of module files for Flit building Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#714 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Deprecate flit publish? Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#709 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 13, 2024
Encourage projects to use flit_core as build system instead of flit Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#698 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 28, 2024
400 Bad Request when uploading to Test PyPi Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pypa/flit#696 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2024
flit publish fails, 403 Client Error: Username/Password authentication is no longer supported. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#686 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 6, 2024
Only tar.gz format is made with `flit build` when there is `.git`? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pypa/flit#685 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2024
Add `upgrade` option to `flit install` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pypa/flit#681 · 2 comments · Opened May 8, 2024
Get indexes from pyproject.toml Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#671 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2024
Is `flit install` still necessary? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#670 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 17, 2023
Several items from a new user (e.g., unclear how to try out flit locally; `--env` flag not respected?; a working "quick start" demo?) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#664 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2023
Bad Request for url (400 Client Error) on Gitlab CI Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#654 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2023
If the module to build is name as "build", the flit-core may run some mistake exception Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

pypa/flit#648 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2023
Add support for getting username from keyring Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

pypa/flit#637 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2023
Improve isolation of tests for `flit install` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#609 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2022
Add `flit new` CLI Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#597 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 23, 2022
Using flit and circleci Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#596 · Opened Sep 22, 2022
flit install --pth-file doesn't build [project.gui-scripts] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#585 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2022
flit --symlink: FileExistsError: [WinError 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists: Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#584 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Some metadata validation is missing from `flit_core`? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#580 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2022
flit_core does not filter out Python bytecode when not operating on vcs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#568 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2022
requirementslib/pipenv not getting name of requirement from flint_core.buildapi Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#564 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2022
Cannot build even most simple packages Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#560 · 11 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2022
Traceback exposed if upload fails Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#558 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2022
Obscure error message "Invalid value for provides" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pypa/flit#552 · 5 comments · Opened May 15, 2022
building reproducible tarballs Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#542 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2022
Document what flit_core includes in a sdist Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#540 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2022
Command to install only dependencies, but not project itself Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#536 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2022
Implement PEP 685 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

pypa/flit#535 · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2022
Editable build could be broken when user miss docstring for description Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#534 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2022
`flit` and `flit_core` can be out of sync Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#529 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2022
Support way to filter data files Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#524 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 5, 2022
Discussion: future shape of the 'flit' command Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

pypa/flit#522 · 40 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2022
Add `flit publish --certificate *Path_to_certificate*` option Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#517 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 23, 2022
Suggest some sample projects as part of the documentation. Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#515 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2022
Add `flit install --editable` option Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#512 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 16, 2022
flit doesn't follow symlinks when pulling in `include =` in pyproject.toml Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pypa/flit#509 · Opened Jan 14, 2022
pre-commit hook for `pyroject.toml` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#507 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2022
Consider making it possible to fail on unknown keys in `[project]` table Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

pypa/flit#505 · 10 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2022
`pip install packagename[all]` support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#488 · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 16, 2021
Cannot install as Root. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#487 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2021
How to get `flit publish` to instruct pip to install torch per PyTorch instructions? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pypa/flit#458 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 18, 2021
Windows and Sylinks Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

pypa/flit#428 · Opened Aug 10, 2021
specifying specific versions on python (windows only, 32 bit) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pypa/flit#425 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 27, 2021
Unexpected behavior with virtualenvs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pypa/flit#424 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2021

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