[Distutils] moving things forward (was: wheel including files it shouldn't)

[Daniel Holth]

Agree.

On Wed, May 4, 2016, 09:28 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 May 2016 at 23:00, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1 It would be great to start with a real setup_requires and probably
> would
> > not interfere with later build system abstractions at all.
>
> If we're going to go down that path, perhaps it might make sense to
> just define a standard [setup_requires] section in setup.cfg?
>
> Quite a few projects already have one of those thanks to distutiils2,
> d2to1 and pbr, which means the pragmatic approach here might be to ask
> what needs to change so the qualifier can be removed from this current
> observation in the PBR docs: "The setup.cfg file is an ini-like file
> that can mostly replace the setup.py file."
>
> The build system abstraction config could then also just be another
> setup.cfg section.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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