Juergen Hermann wrote:

Hi!

I needed this in my setup.py to support distutils 1.0.1:

if hasattr(distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata, 'get_keywords'): setup_args['keywords'] = "wiki web"

if hasattr(distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata, 'get_platforms'): setup_args['platforms'] = "win32 posix"

apply(setup, (), setup_args)

Is there a more official way?

I don't think so... you will have to override the DistributionMetadata class inplace, that is before even running setup(). Changes to the compiler classes require the same procedure. I think we ought to make distutils more customizable in this respect too, e.g. by providing a generic class lookup dictionary (much ilke the cmdclass dict) in the setup() call as keyword parameter which then allows overriding compiler classes and other classes for which there is no general hook. Another thing which I stumbled across is that there seems to be no way to define the order of calling the various commands, e.g. to insert a new command into the general flow of execution. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/