[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 12:16:50 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:42 AM,  <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> What use cases do we have?  There's the one described above, which lots of
> people have been talking about.  I think there's another one related to
> target Python version - eg, on Python 2.3, depend on simplejson, but on
> Python 2.6, don't.  What else?

So if I resume, so far the uses cases are:

- the OS given by os.name and sys.platform (linux/mac/windows/riscos/ce/ etc..)
- the architecture, given by os.uname() (32/64 bits)
- the python version, given sys.version_info


Tarek


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