<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>> And maybe it's good to keep "new style" configuration clearly separate.<br>
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</span>Part of my motivation for suggesting re-using setup.cfg is the<br>
proliferation of packaging related config sprawl in project root<br>
directories - setup.py won't be going anywhere any time soon for most<br>
projects, some folks already have a setup.cfg (e.g. to specify<br>
universal wheel creation), and there's also MANIFEST.in to control<br>
sdist generation.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yeah -- ugly, but will one more file make a difference? now that I think about it -- IIUC the goals here, we want to separate packaging from building -- I'd argue that setuup.cfg is about building -- we really should keep the package configuration separate. Some day, some how, we hoping to have a new (or multiple build systems) they won't use setup.cfg to configure the build. So we probably shouldn't marry ourselves to setup.cfg for package configuration.</div><div><br></div><div>The other issue is social -- if we stick with setup.cfg, we are implying that this is all about tweaking distutils/setuptools, not doing something different -- seemingly keeping the mingling of building and packaging forevermore....</div><div><br></div><div>But this isn't that big a deal -- enough bike-shedding, time to make a declaration.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R <a href="tel:%28206%29%20526-6959" value="+12065266959" target="_blank">(206) 526-6959</a> voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE <a href="tel:%28206%29%20526-6329" value="+12065266329" target="_blank">(206) 526-6329</a> fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 <a href="tel:%28206%29%20526-6317" value="+12065266317" target="_blank">(206) 526-6317</a> main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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