[Distutils] introspecting package data

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Yes,  as long as the metadata are in a python file, you're in trouble
> to automate anything like you are mentioning.
> But a static metadata system needs to provide a registery mechanism,
> so we can call some arbitrary code
> when some metadata are generated at installation time for instance.

I don't follow this at all. Why is arbitrary code needed?

Chris

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