From b6c41cdb8a351452bcd23cf510081c68cf23eb94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri Papadopoulos
 <3234522+DimitriPapadopoulos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 10:43:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] A few fixes for flit builds

The build backend should be `flit_core`, not `flit`:
https://flit.pypa.io/en/stable/pyproject_toml.html#build-system-section

File `_version.py` should be part of sdist and wheel distributions.
---
 .gitignore     | 2 +-
 pyproject.toml | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0495ac79..22a97b4c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/tabulate/version.py
+/tabulate/_version.py
 
 build
 dist
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2a80daa5..b8308077 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["flit>=3.12", "flit_scm"]
+requires = ["flit_core>=3.12", "flit_scm"]
 build-backend = "flit_scm:buildapi"
 
 [project]
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ tabulate = "tabulate:_main"
 
 [tool.flit.sdist]
 include = ["CHANGELOG", "test/", "tox.ini"]
-exclude = ["tabulate/_version.py"]
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 write_to = "tabulate/_version.py"