[Distutils] Splitting metadata from setup.py in distutils..

[Jim Fulton]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:09 PM, David Lyon wrote:
>>
>>> For example, add the ability for setup.py to interact with a new
>>> file called, say "setup.xml".
>>
>> Oh for Guido's sake, can we please not use XML?  I'd much prefer a
>> human-friendly format ;)
>
> +10, but I'm +sys.maxint on not using json. We want to use javascript to
> configure python packages? Wait, what?!
>
> It the data doesn't need to be nested, I'd say use ConfigParser format...

+1, even if the information is nested.

Note that there are variants of config parser that support nesting and
there are techniques for representing nested data in normal
config-parser files.

Jim

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Jim Fulton