[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
<floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:14:58PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> Also, I've just realized that uname() is a tuple, so I need to flatten
>> it in strings to restrict the grammar:
>>
>> - os_sysname
>> - os_nodename
>> - os_release
>> - os_version
>> - os_machine
>
> When I asked for this I was imagening (wrongly) way more to go in
> setup.cfg then just the meta-data.  To be honest in that case I don't
> think I've got a use for os.uname() to be available.  While nothing is
> wrong with having it, if no one else thinks they need it maybe it's
> unnecessary complication?

I guess we could leave them since they don't hurt, and see after a version
if they are not used by people.

os_machine help though, knowing if it's a 32 or 64 bits machine


>
> Regards
> Floris
>
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