Hi Erik, On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, This is my first post specifically to distutils-sig, though I've had an interest in packaging for a while (having come up with some fairly arcane schemes in the past, where no better alternatives were apparent).
At any rate: I'm currently working on a plan to overhaul how a number of my company's projects are packaged and distributed. Right now they all rely on a monkey-patched, hacked up distutils that needs to go away. I'm already on top of that.
But seeing as how distutils2 is going to be the "new hotness" I want to plan for at as part of my overhaul. I realize that distutils2 is still in flux, and anything I do now will have to be tweaked as development on it continues. I am fine with this, as I still intend to use Distribute as the primary installation mechanism. But I really like how distutils2 keeps all metadata in the setup.cfg file, and want to start doing that now, so that I don't have to keep two copies of everything.
It should be no problem to just have my setup.py read everything it needs out of setup.cfg, but what I'm wondering is if there is already an extension to do this, or will I have to roll my own? It just seems like an obvious thing to have for transitioning to distutils2, and if it doesn't already exist it should (I will of course be happy to contribute). I should note that I don't want distutils2 itself to be a dependency for installing my packages, as it is too unstable, so directly using any machinery built into it is out of the question.
There's such a thing, look at this function here: http://hg.python.org/distutils2/file/6fca65ff60ad/distutils2/util.py#l1098 It's not hooked yet to a command-line tool like mkcfg, but should be soon. Let us know how it works out for you.
Thanks for any comments, Erik _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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