[Distutils] Proposed change to buildout configuration-file handling

[Jim Fulton]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Łukasz Langa <lukasz at langa.pl> wrote:
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> Wiadomość napisana przez Jim Fulton w dniu 2011-03-07, o godz. 12:35:
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> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
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> Le 06/03/2011 16:34, Jim Fulton a écrit :
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> An annoyance in buildout configurations, resulting from [its] use of
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> ConfigParser, is that configuration data lines are stripped of leading
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> spaces.
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> configparser is much better in 3.2 (I'm cc'ing the author of those
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> improvements and new module maintainer), and I already suggested a
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> standalone release on PyPI for older Pythons.  It would be nice to work
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> out whether your needs could be addressed directly at the source before
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> being forced to fork or monkey-patch.
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> 3.2 is irrelevant.
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> While I plan to port buildout to Python 3 at PyCon, I intent to
> maintain buildout on Python 2 for some time, so there's really no
> point in depending on changes made in 3.2.
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> If that changes anything, you can expect a 2.4+ compatible version soon (how
> soon depends on when you need it), much like unittest2 ports Python 3.2
> unittest down.

How so? As a pypi release?

I'd consider it under those circumstances.  I'll take a look at the
new version before writing my own then (although writing my own is a
pretty trivial exercise of copying the existing _read method and
making a few minor tweaks).

Jim


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