[Distutils] Static metadata using setup.cfg

[David Lyon]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:07:30 +1200, Greg Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:
> David Lyon wrote:
> 
>> or just..
>> 
>> [requires linux2]
>> ...
>> 
>> [requires win32]:
>> ...
> 
> Perhaps, if the sets of "tokens" used in the various fields
> one might be interested in are disjoint. It would require
> more intelligence from tools processing the data, though,
> and might be harder to extend to accommodate future
> requirements. Explicit might be better than implicit here.

Another example, 

instead of say:
"""
${if python_version < '2.5':}$
install_requires: jsonlib
${:else:}$
install_requires: lxml
${:endif}$
"""

something like this:

"""
[setup]
name = mywebframework
version = 1.5

[python_version < '2.5']
install_requires = jasonlib

[python_version >= '2.5']
install_requires = lxml

"""

David