[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format (original) (raw)
Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 13:58:54 CEST 2009
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:48:08 -0700, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
Since the language summit at PyCon 2009 various committers, including me, have been encouraging Tarek to act as distutils dictator to get things finished as we all know people are prone to bikeshedding that would kill any forward momentum we have towards improving the packaging situation. ...except that this isn't bikeshedding. Use of that term just to stifle productive discussion is also rude. As I see it, the choice of syntax as such is an issue of bikeshedding except that the choice of one syntax over the another could make it supportive to add an useful feature in setuptools to distutils. For instance, this syntax which I proposed - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013289.html - will make us think about adding installrequires/extrarequires to distutils in addition to the conditional metadata .. rather than inventing a new syntax to support only conditional metadata.
Please keep in mind that the original proposal is having the ability to get static metadata (metadata: PEP 314) without running any code.
Your mail contains two things:
- yet another way to express the conditions (that's the bikeshedding)
- a setuptools mechanism located in setup.py that works with an option to build a requires.txt file when you install a package or create a binary distribution.
The later is not related to what we want to do, or if it is, please refine your proposal and make it clear at Distutils-SIG.
Tarek
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