[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

[David Cournapeau]

Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
>
> I really like this idea.  It seems to solve most of the issues.  For
> some reason my brain kept thinking that categorising data by it's
> purpose is a really natural thing to do, but that seems not so.
>   

In this proposal, I don't understand why tagging data/doc/etc...  in a
separate file is easier than tagging it directly in setup.py ? Maybe I
am missing something important, but why requiring a different mechanism
than the existing one in setup, so that we end up with two mechanisms
(data_dir/data_files from setup, and tagging in a separate file) ?

cheers,

David