[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>>> I may be missing some context, but I did about an hour of googling around
>>> before responding here, and for the life of me I can't find a simple 
>>> answer
>>> to the question: how do I currently programatically get the metadata 
>>> out of
>>> a distribution?
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo/
> 
> Yeah, but you have to remember to sacrifice the right goats to end up 
> with the right things in whatever files pkginfo uses :-(

You bothering the goats again, Chris? ;)

pkginfo uses the standard information generated by the 'sdist',
'develop' and 'bdist_egg' commenads, and can even introspect installed
packages on Python 2.6.x.  It is documented here:

  http://packages.python.org/pkginfo/


Tres.
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