Re: [Distutils] Q about best practices now (or near future)

On Jul 17, 2013, at 07:56 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

The long-term intent is to remove executable setup.py. When this happens, definitely consumers (end users, Python tools like pip, and distro packaging systems) will have some migration work to do. Keeping that manageable will definitely be important. But doing nothing and staying where we are isn't really an option, so we'll have to accept and manage the pain.

Definitely. And if that leads to a declarative equivalent that we can reason about without executing, all the better. the-setup.cfg-is-dead,-long-live-the-setup.cfg-ly y'rs, -Barry