[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Paul Moore]

On 10 May 2016 at 13:40, Wolfgang <tds333 at mailbox.org> wrote:
> So why not use the ConfigParser available with Python and extend it to meet
> the requirements. Custom getters can be written and for the complex
> stuff ast.literal_eval() can be used to safely parse the complex list
> of requirements with comments.

Sadly, pip needs to work on Python 2.6+, so we can't use these new
features of configparser.

Paul