Feature request/proposal to expose project.scripts in output of pdm show

[adamliter]

Is your feature/enhancement proposal related to a problem? Please describe.

It might be nice to expose whether (and which) project.scripts a Python project defines in its pyproject.toml via pdm show (e.g., pdm show --scripts or pdm show --project-scripts). This would be useful in the context of CI to be able to check that a particular package exposes a script with the expected name that can then be called later in the CI step with pdm run my_script.

Describe the solution you'd like

pyproject.toml

[project.scripts]
my_script = my_package:my_module:main

using pdm to check output in CI

$ pdm show --project-scripts
["my_script"]
# or perhaps [{"my_script": "my_package.my_module:main"}]

Do you see utility/interest in this feature? If so, I'm happy to take a shot at it.

[frostming]

How would you implement it if user requests a pypi package like pdm show <package> --scripts?

[adamliter]

Hmm, good question. I guess it's not really possible since this information isn't exposed via the PyPI JSON API. So the options seem like they would be:

1. Download it to a cache in the background and then check with importlib.metadata from the cache ... ?
2. Just error out for packages that aren't installed locally

Maybe the second option is best, but then maybe it's worth making it a separate command or something (e.g., pdm package-scripts ... ?). Also understand if this is something you'd rather not add to pdm.