Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

At 12:28 AM 9/12/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:

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The second motivation is : why do I need to run some code to get the metadata fields ?

Turning the config file into code means you'd be running code. :)

Well that's very different. You will be running a function that is provided in the stdlib, in a vanilla Python, and that will be restricted to string comparisons basically.

In other words, it is more likely to be a translation of setup.cfg into a "localized" setup.cfg.

But in that case, why not just have a 100% static format without any dynamic content whatsoever, and run a "configure.py" or some such (perhaps "distconfig.py") to generate it? Since it's not setup.py, there are no backward compatibility issues, and we can actually get the full benefit of environment-specific configuration (e.g. library locations, etc.).