i'm in the middle of moving a package from using autoconf to
distutils, and i'm having trouble finding a good way to do
substitution of configured/discovered options into a template file.
in autoconf, i have a config.py.in file, which contains lines of the
form
default_url = "@default_url@"
at configure time, the @foo@ values are replaced with real content,
from --with-default-url options to configure, and various other
discovered stuff.
the package is pure Python, so i have been able to just run install,
which in turn ran build, and i don't really want to add a config step
unless i have to.
i have played with sub-classing the build command, and adding a file
copy and substitute step into the run command, but ...
has anyone else done something like this? any suggestions?
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