[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Łukasz Langa]

Next thing you know we end up with a new setup.py, with imports, PYTHONPATH hacking et al ;-)

> On May 9, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
> I just found this on StackOverflow:
> 
>  http://stackoverflow.com/a/648487/208880
> 
> tl;dr
> -----
> 
> > Recently I was working upon a project and I realised that I wanted to
> > have conditionals inside my configuration file [...]
> >
> > I didn't want to write a mini-language, because unless I did it very
> > carefully I couldn't allow the flexibility that would be useful.
> >
> > Instead I decided that I'd have two forms:  If the file started with
> > "#!" and was executable I'd parse the result of running it; otherwise
> > I'd read it as-is
> 
> That approach seems like a win-win: the plain-vanilla static file can be promoted as best-practice, yet we have a fall-back for the complicated and edge cases.
> 
> --
> ~Ethan~
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