[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format (original) (raw)

Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 10:37:45 CEST 2009

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:49:16AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

While it's a good idea to put up some form of meta-data into an index, I wonder why you are using setup.cfg for this.

setup.cfg has traditionally been used to configure distutils, not to define meta-data. As such you wouldn't want to put such a configuration file up on PyPI. Wouldn't it be better use a new file for this (with the same syntax), e.g. metadata.cfg ?! This would then just contain the meta data that needs to be published.

IIRC the goal was to make minimal changes and setup.cfg is known already. It's use is similar too: it configures the setup.py script with static data.

PyPI could only extract the [setup:*] sections if you'r worried about it having random configuration from developers. I don't think this is enough of a argument in favour or not of a metadata file separate from setup.cfg.

Regards Floris

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