[Distutils] PEP 426: proposed metadata caching convention

[Glyph]

On Feb 27, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm generally +1 on hooks, the failure of setup.py isn't particularly that
> it's executable, it's that you can't access the metadata without executing
> it. In general hooks also allow people to easily disable them during install
> if they don't wish for that (of course packages have no reason to support that
> if they don't want to).

I pretty much agree.  I'd be happy – enthusiastic, even – for Twisted to update to some static metadata expression system.

-glyph

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