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

[Tres Seaver]

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Ben Finney wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:
> 
>> Le mercredi 28 janvier 2009 à 13:16 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit :
>>> As you mention, there would have to be some extension to
>>> pkg_resources (or an equivalent library) to handle finding these
>>> files at runtime. Getting a runtime in place is probably the
>>> harder thing, as it is more intrusive for the upstream developers.
>> As I have already explained in the previous discussion, this could
>> easily be solved just like autoconf does, with an automatically
>> generated config.py file that would hold all variables set at build
>> time.
> 
> I would recommend choosing (earlier rather than later) a different
> name for that file. ‘config.py’ suggests rather the run-time
> configuration for the program.
> 
> Perhaps ‘setup_config.py’? Something that makes it clear that the
> configuration is intended for the setup and installation, *not* the
> running Python package.

I would argue against making it a .py file at all: make it an INI file,
or something.


Tres.
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