[Python-Dev] Edits to Metadata 1.2 to add extras (optional dependencies) (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald.stufft at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 15:23:59 CEST 2012

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.

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