[Distutils] Static metadata using setup.cfg

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Here's a demo of what I was thinking of adding in Distutils:
> 
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/staticmetadata/
> 
> It uses Mako just for the proof of concept, README.txt explains how it works
> 
> Let me know how this fits your needs,

A couple of things:

- I've never had to use anything that would require the kind of 
templating being discussed here, so please make setup.cfg "just work" if 
setup.cfg.in isn't there.

- I think any kind of templating language is *way to heavyweight*. If 
you need anything more than simple string substitution, then the code 
should be in setup.py

cheers,

Chris

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