[Distutils] Conditionless setup.py

[Pradyun Gedam]

Hi Thomas!

Have you seen Pipfile? It's something along those lines - a declarative
specification of project data. :)

github.com/pypa/pipfile

Regards,
Pradyun Gedam

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 14:12 Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de>
wrote:

> The setup.py of numpy looks big and complicated:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py
>
> I guess there are even more complicated setup.py files.
>
> Do you think it will be possible in the future to make setup.py
> conditionless (no "if", no "else", no function calls)?
>
> I mean that the setuptools/distutils/whatever libraries will handle all
> needed conditions?
>
> This would mean setup.py would be a pure data structure which could be
> encoded in json or yaml.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
>    Thomas Güttler
>
>
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