[Distutils] distribute 0.6.10 and convert_2to3_doctests

[Lennart Regebro]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:27, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> [..]
>> However, it would be nice if setuptools/distribute supported something like
>> this out of the box.  The important thing is to have exactly one place to set
>> the package's version number.
>
> For metadata fields like "version", one option I am working on in
> Distutils itself is to have a complementary section in the static
> setup.cfg file, where you can set some fields:
>
>  [setup]
>  name=foo
>  version=1.9.8
>
> Once setup() is run, the Distribution class will look at this file, to
> complete the options provided by code;
>
> Of course this supposes that the version is not calculated by some
> code (like in your solution). But I think a plain, non-development
> version, can be static.

What you want is then a simple way of getting this version number into
the python code. Any recommendations for that?
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