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@Avasam Avasam commented Feb 10, 2026

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Updated project description.

Closes #4941

As per comment in that issue, I mentioned extensibility and C/C++ extensions, which are still the main selling points of setuptools.
Other build backends can also be extended/configured/have plugins, but not all support C/C++, and not so extendible you can literally change the backend's internals (due to its nature of being written in Python).

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Avasam and others added 2 commits February 9, 2026 20:13
Co-authored-by: Anderson Bravalheri <andersonbravalheri+github@gmail.com>
@Avasam Avasam force-pushed the Update-project-description branch from 554a195 to 41a859a Compare February 10, 2026 01:13
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Thanks @Avasam, I will merge this as it looks good to me. It can be revisited later if someone has a different idea.

@abravalheri abravalheri merged commit 41595af into pypa:main Feb 10, 2026
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@Avasam Avasam deleted the Update-project-description branch February 10, 2026 02:13
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[Docs] "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages" description possibly out of date

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