# Modernization Progress Analysis (as of November 14, 2025)

**Issue Reference:** [#15 - Modernize wads](https://github.com/i2mint/wads/issues/15)

## Summary

Significant modernization work has been completed over the past 3-4 days. **wads is now substantially modernized** and supports both modern pyproject.toml workflows and legacy setup.cfg projects. Below is a detailed analysis comparing the current state against the original issue goals.

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## ✅ What Has Been Completed

### 1. Adopt pyproject.toml by default ✅

**Status:** **COMPLETED**

- ✅ **wads itself** now uses `pyproject.toml` with Hatchling backend (v0.1.47)
- ✅ **pyproject.toml template** created (`data/pyproject_toml_tpl.toml`) with:
  - PEP 621 metadata structure
  - Hatchling build backend
  - Ruff configuration
  - pytest configuration
- ✅ **populate** generates `pyproject.toml` for new projects by default
- ✅ **pack** reads from and writes to `pyproject.toml` (with fallback to `setup.cfg`)

**Evidence:**
- `pyproject.toml` exists with all modern tooling configured
- `wads/pyproject.toml` has `build-backend = "hatchling.build"`
- Template includes tool configurations for ruff and pytest

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### 2. Ruff as Primary Linter/Formatter ✅

**Status:** **COMPLETED**

- ✅ Ruff configuration in `pyproject.toml` template
- ✅ Ruff integrated into CI workflows
- ✅ Ruff format and lint steps in validation pipeline
- ✅ Configurable exclusions (tests, examples, scrap)

**Configuration:**
```toml
[tool.ruff]
line-length = 88
target-version = "py310"
exclude = ["**/*.ipynb", ".git", ".venv", "build", "dist", "tests", "examples", "scrap"]
```

**Evidence:**
- Modern CI workflow at `.github/workflows/ci.yml` uses `i2mint/wads/actions/ruff-format@master` and `ruff-lint@master`
- Template includes ruff configuration with sensible defaults

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### 3. Modern Packaging & Build System ✅

**Status:** **COMPLETED**

- ✅ `pack.py` uses `python -m build` (PEP 517 compliant)
- ✅ Fallback to legacy `setup.py` if build module unavailable
- ✅ `twine upload` for PyPI publishing
- ✅ Version management works with both pyproject.toml and setup.cfg
- ✅ Dependencies added: `build`, `packaging`, `tomli`, `tomli-w`

**Code:**
```python
def run_setup(pkg_dir):
    """Run `python -m build` (modern PEP 517 compliant build)"""
    # Uses python -m build with fallback
```

**Evidence:**
- Commits like `885a6b4` and `e415765` show migration to modern build tools
- `pyproject.toml` includes `build` and `packaging` in dependencies

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### 4. GitHub Actions: Reusable Workflows ✅

**Status:** **COMPLETED**

- ✅ **Modern CI template** created (`data/github_ci_publish_2025.yml`)
- ✅ **Reusable actions** implemented in `actions/` directory:
  - `build-dist/` - Build distributions
  - `bump-version-number/` - Version management
  - `git-commit/` - Automated commits
  - `git-tag/` - Tagging
  - `install-deps/` - Dependency installation
  - `pypi-upload/` - PyPI publishing
  - `ruff-format/` - Code formatting
  - `ruff-lint/` - Linting
  - `run-tests/` - Test execution
  - `windows-tests/` - Windows compatibility tests
- ✅ **wads itself uses the modern CI** (`.github/workflows/ci.yml`)

**CI Workflow Structure:**
- Validation job: format → lint → test
- Windows validation (non-blocking)
- Publish job: format → version bump → build → publish → commit → tag
- GitHub Pages deployment

**Evidence:**
- 11 reusable actions created under `actions/` directory
- Modern CI workflow with matrix testing (Python 3.10, 3.12)
- Commit `e415765`: "feat(ci): add modern CI workflow with ruff for linting"

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### 5. Migration Tools 🎉

**Status:** **COMPLETED & BEYOND EXPECTATIONS**

New comprehensive migration system created:

- ✅ **`wads/migration.py` module** (500+ lines)
  - `migrate_setuptools_to_hatching()` - Convert setup.cfg → pyproject.toml
  - `migrate_github_ci_old_to_new()` - Update CI scripts
  - Flexible input (file, string, dict)
  - Rule-based transformation system
  - Extensible with custom rules
  - Strict validation with clear error messages

- ✅ **Integration with populate**
  - `--migrate` flag to auto-migrate existing projects
  - Graceful fallback if migration fails

- ✅ **Comprehensive documentation**
  - `MIGRATION.md` - Complete user guide
  - `MIGRATION_IMPLEMENTATION.md` - Technical summary
  - `README.md` updated with migration section
  - `examples/migration_example.py` - Working examples

- ✅ **New module: `github_ci_ops.py`**
  - Parse and compare GitHub Actions workflows
  - Preserve comments during migration
  - Uses `ruamel.yaml` for comment preservation

- ✅ **Test suite**: 14 migration tests (all passing)

**Evidence:**
- Commits `885a6b4`, `8f34c8d`, `4f02f63`, `4129160` implement migration tools
- PR #19 merged migration functionality
- Documentation files created with detailed examples

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### 6. Template Files & Project Structure ✅

**Status:** **COMPLETED**

- ✅ `.gitignore` template
- ✅ `.gitattributes` template  
- ✅ `LICENSE` templates (MIT and others via `licensing.py`)
- ✅ `README.md` generation
- ✅ `pyproject.toml` template with all tool configs

**Evidence:**
- `data/` directory contains all templates
- Commit `bf745d2`: "feat: add .gitattributes template"
- `populate.py` orchestrates all file generation

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### 7. Modern Python Versions ✅

**Status:** **COMPLETED**

- ✅ Requires Python ≥3.10
- ✅ CI tests on Python 3.10 and 3.12
- ✅ Uses modern Python features (tomllib for 3.11+, tomli fallback)

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## 🔄 Partially Implemented / In Progress

### 1. Pre-commit Configuration ⚠️

**Status:** **NOT YET IMPLEMENTED**

The issue mentions providing pre-commit configuration. This is **not yet present** in templates.

**Recommendation:** Add `.pre-commit-config.yaml` template with ruff hooks.

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### 2. OIDC Publishing ⚠️

**Status:** **NOT IMPLEMENTED**

Current CI uses PyPI username/password secrets. OIDC (OpenID Connect) publishing for secure, token-less PyPI uploads is **not yet implemented**.

**Note:** This is more advanced and can be added later. The current approach works.

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### 3. Interactive/CLI Toggles for populate ⚠️

**Status:** **PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED**

The issue suggests:
- CLI flags to enable/disable features (CI, linting, type-checking)
- `--minimal` and `--opinionated` modes

**Current state:**
- `--migrate` flag exists
- Other toggles for tool selection **not implemented**

**Recommendation:** Could add flags like `--with-ci`, `--with-ruff`, `--backend=[hatchling|flit]` in future.

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### 4. wads doctor / wads check ⚠️

**Status:** **NOT IMPLEMENTED**

A validation command to check project layout and configuration is **not yet present**.

**Recommendation:** Lower priority; could be useful future enhancement.

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### 5. Template Repository ⚠️

**Status:** **NOT IMPLEMENTED**

The issue suggests creating a GitHub template repository that users can use directly.

**Current approach:** Templates are embedded in `wads/data/` directory.

**Recommendation:** Consider creating a separate `i2mint/python-project-template` repo.

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## 🎯 Architectural Choices Made

### 1. Build Backend: **Hatchling** ✅
- **Decision:** Use Hatchling as the default build backend
- **Rationale:** Modern, PEP 517 compliant, minimal configuration
- **Evidence:** All templates use `build-backend = "hatchling.build"`

### 2. Linter: **Ruff** (not ruff + black) ✅
- **Decision:** Use ruff for both linting AND formatting
- **Rationale:** Single tool, extremely fast, replaces multiple tools
- **Evidence:** CI uses `ruff-format` action, no separate black step

### 3. Migration Strategy: **Opt-in & Gradual** ✅
- **Decision:** Support both old and new formats, with explicit migration path
- **Rationale:** Backwards compatibility for existing projects
- **Evidence:** `pack.py` checks for pyproject.toml first, falls back to setup.cfg

### 4. CI Actions: **Reusable Composite Actions** ✅
- **Decision:** Create reusable actions in `actions/` directory
- **Rationale:** Centralized maintenance, consistent across projects
- **Evidence:** 11 actions created, used in wads CI and templates

### 5. Python Version: **≥3.10** ✅
- **Decision:** Require Python 3.10+
- **Rationale:** Modern type hints, match expressions, better performance
- **Evidence:** `requires-python = ">=3.10"` in pyproject.toml

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## 📊 Quantitative Summary

### Code Changes (Last 4 Days)
- **27 commits** related to modernization
- **3 merged PRs** (#16, #17, #18, #19)
- **New modules:** `migration.py` (500+ lines), `github_ci_ops.py` (477+ lines)
- **New actions:** 11 reusable GitHub Actions
- **New docs:** 3 markdown files (MIGRATION.md, MIGRATION_IMPLEMENTATION.md, CI_MIGRATION_README.md)
- **Tests:** 14 new migration tests (all passing)

### Files Modified/Created
- ✅ `pyproject.toml` - Modernized wads itself
- ✅ `wads/migration.py` - New migration module
- ✅ `wads/github_ci_ops.py` - CI operations module
- ✅ `wads/populate.py` - Enhanced with migration support
- ✅ `wads/pack.py` - Enhanced with pyproject.toml support
- ✅ `wads/data/pyproject_toml_tpl.toml` - Modern template
- ✅ `wads/data/github_ci_publish_2025.yml` - Modern CI template
- ✅ `.github/workflows/ci.yml` - Wads own modern CI
- ✅ 11 action directories with READMEs

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## 🚀 What Can Still Be Done

### High Priority
1. **Pre-commit configuration template** - Add `.pre-commit-config.yaml`
2. **Documentation of reusable actions** - Ensure each action has comprehensive README
3. **Example template repository** - Create `i2mint/python-project-template`

### Medium Priority
4. **Interactive populate options** - Add CLI flags for feature selection
5. **OIDC publishing support** - Modernize PyPI publishing workflow
6. **wads doctor command** - Validate project configuration

### Low Priority (Future Enhancements)
7. **Support for other build backends** - Add Flit/Poetry options
8. **Dependabot configuration** - Add to templates
9. **Type checking integration** - mypy/pyright configuration in templates
10. **Integration with isee project** - Coordinate defaults (mentioned in issue)

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## 🎉 Conclusion

**wads has been successfully modernized!** The core goals of Issue #15 have been achieved:

✅ **pyproject.toml by default** - wads uses it, generates it, reads/writes it  
✅ **Modern build system** - `python -m build` with Hatchling  
✅ **Ruff for linting/formatting** - Fast, modern, single tool  
✅ **Reusable GitHub Actions** - 11 actions for CI/CD workflows  
✅ **Migration tools** - Comprehensive system to upgrade old projects  
✅ **Modern CI** - Template and implementation using modern practices  
✅ **Python ≥3.10** - Modern language features  
✅ **Extensive documentation** - Migration guides, examples, implementation notes  

The migration work represents a **major version-worthy update** and positions wads as a modern, best-practices Python project scaffolder and packager.

**Recommended next steps:**
1. Consider this issue substantially **complete** ✅
2. Create new issues for remaining enhancements (pre-commit, OIDC, template repo, etc.)
3. Update README with "What's New in v0.2.0" or similar
4. Coordinate with the `isee` project on CI integration
5. Announce the modernization to users

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**Great work on the modernization!** 🎊
