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On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

It does have the advantage that tools for manipulating the format can
remain dumber, but that doesn't seem like \*that\* much of an advantage,
especially since any such benefit could be eliminated completely by
just switching to a completely standard ConfigParser format by putting
the PEP defined settings into a \[python\] section.

To be more specific, there is setup.cfg (which I dislike for other reasons), and

then there is METADATA. setup.cfg is an ini file but METADATA is a simple

key: value file with a flat namespace so any namespacing you want to do in

METADATA needs to be done at the key level. You could translate:

\[setuptools\]

requires-dist=foo

in a setup.cfg into

setuptools-requires-dist: foo

in METADATA, but I'm not sure if that would be beneficial or not.