[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

[Jeff Rush]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 
> Imagine a command with the name "foo", that has an option called "condition".
> 
> The setup.cfg file might look like this:
> 
> """
> [global]
> verbose: 1
> 
> [setup]
> name: MyDistribution
> version: 1.0
> 
> [only_windows]
> condition: sys_platform == 'win32'
> requires: pywin32
> 
> [foo]
> verbose: 1
> condition: badababdalolo
> """"
> 
> Here, the foo section is not supposed to be used by the setup section,
> it's just a section for the command value, which is allowed (see
> http://docs.python.org/distutils/configfile.html)

Ooh, nasty.  I would -want- this case to error out because it could
introduce a hard to find problem.  Perhaps that condition: is intended
for use by [setup] but a tired person forgot to list it in [setup].  He
keeps looking at his setup.cfg and cannot see why it doesn't use his
condition.  I'd rather a big error popped up than a silent ambiguity.

-Jeff