[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Sep 15 10:47:16 CEST 2009


Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> 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

I don't follow that. If a "conditions:" line is being
used to express the condition, then you can't use the
name "conditions" for anything else anyway.

-- 
Greg


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