[Distutils] Static metadata using setup.cfg

[Greg Ewing]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> In that case, if we want to keep a configparser-compatible file, we
> need to find another
> way to express these if/else parts, which will probably lead to a
> complex, non natural
> syntax.

Maybe the conditions could be expressed in the
section headers?

[requires platform="linux"]
...

[requires platform="win32"]:
...

Then it's not so much if-then-else logic as just
tagging parts of the file with conditions under
which they apply.

-- 
Greg