[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 09:16:01 CEST 2009


On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
>> [setup]
>> foo: bar
>> conditional-sections: one, two
>
> Is conditional-sections: really necessary? Isn't the
> presence of a conditions: line in a section enough to
> mark it as conditional?

I find having a conditional section explicitely defined better that
doing a convention on names because if someone implements
a command that uses that name (it's likely to be improbable but...)
it will break his ability to use setup.cfg to give options to his commands

Tarek


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