[Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

[Georg Brandl]

Floris Bruynooghe schrieb:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:31:46AM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Chris Withers schrieb:
>> > Fred Drake wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>> setup()
>> >>>
>> >>> ...would get everyone from the static metadata file, while any keyword
>> >>> parameters to setup would override the appropriate setting from the static
>> >>> metadata file...
>> >> 
>> >> I'd rather see the static data in setup.cfg and no setup.py if there's
>> >> no need for custom Python code.  
>> > 
>> > I think "python setup.py install" is so idiomatic that it seems silly to 
>> > break it for the sake of two lines of python. There's also an element of 
>> > "explicit is better than implicit" in the feel of actually running 
>> > setup.py...
>> 
>> Has anyone already suggested something like "python -m setup install"?
>> It would be rather similar and explicit, too.
> 
> I'm sure that approach was mentioned in one of Tarek's very early
> proposals.  IIRC it went away because people didn't like the idea of a
> built-in installer/uninstaller in distutils, but I'm not sure what the
> arguments where.

It's not like it would contain an installer or uninstaller, just the
equivalent of "import setup; setup()" or distributions that don't need
a customized setup.py.

> Personally I have no objection against it, if it would means you can
> omit setup.py if it's only going to call 'setup()' then why not.

Exactly.

Georg


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