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

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > And maybe it's good to keep "new style" configuration clearly separate.
>
> Part of my motivation for suggesting re-using setup.cfg is the
> proliferation of packaging related config sprawl in project root
> directories - setup.py won't be going anywhere any time soon for most
> projects, some folks already have a setup.cfg (e.g. to specify
> universal wheel creation), and there's also MANIFEST.in to control
> sdist generation.


yeah -- ugly, but will  one more file make a difference? now that I think
about it -- IIUC the goals here, we want to separate packaging from
building -- I'd argue that setuup.cfg is about building -- we really should
keep the package configuration  separate. Some day, some how, we hoping to
have a new (or multiple build systems) they won't use setup.cfg to
configure the build. So we probably shouldn't marry ourselves to setup.cfg
for package configuration.

The other issue is social -- if we stick with setup.cfg, we are implying
that this is all about tweaking distutils/setuptools, not doing something
different -- seemingly keeping the mingling of building and packaging
forevermore....

But this isn't that big a deal -- enough bike-shedding, time to make a
declaration.

-CHB


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