[Distutils] Splitting metadata from setup.py in distutils..
Ronald Oussoren
ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Mon Aug 17 17:23:14 CEST 2009
On Monday, 17 August, 2009, at 05:09PM, "Chris Withers" <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> For me, that only leaves the choice of a filename..
>>
>> - setup.info
>>
>> - setup.conf
>>
>> - others..?
>
>...is entirely up to the package developer. We can suggest whatever, but
>since it'll be called from setup.py, we can't do anything other than
>suggest a sensible default that will work with the tools that will
>hopefully show up that only parse the static file...
We already have 'setup.cfg', what's wrong with that? If another filename is needed: please pick one where the suffix is unique, that would make it easier to associate the file with specific programs (double-click to open, spotlight/quicklook helpers on OSX, ...)
Ronald
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