6 Jul
2009
6 Jul
'09
4:30 p.m.
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:52:38 +0100, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Yes, as long as the metadata are in a python file, you're in trouble to automate anything like you are mentioning. But a static metadata system needs to provide a registery mechanism, so we can call some arbitrary code when some metadata are generated at installation time for instance.
I don't follow this at all. Why is arbitrary code needed?
I think what he means is that he doesn't like the way it is at the moment and thinks that the version numbers and other metadata should sit in a config file somewhere. Then the setup.py can be generated from the metadata.. David