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

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Tue Sep 22 16:02:56 CEST 2009

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

The four sentences summary for people in a hurry:

If you're going to promise sentences, please deliver sentences...

Getting metadata of a distribution that is not. installed means running its setup.py. This means. downloading the whole archive, and running. third party code on your system.

This is not a sentence, and I have no idea what you're trying to convey...

A context dependant section is a section with a condition that is. used only if the execution environment meets its condition.

Here's an example:: [setup] name: Foo version: 1.3 [setup:sysplatform == 'win32'] requires: pywin32 requires: bar > 1.0 [setup:osmachine == '64bits'] requires: somepackage [setup:pythonversion == '2.4' or pythonversion == '2.5'] requires: somepackage

As was brought up on the distutils list, this seems unnecessarily complicated.

Other, simpler, solutions were proposed:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013173.html

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013289.html

However, you pronounced yourself bdfl(!):

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013318.html

...and decided to ignore them. Please don't do this over such an important matter.

cheers,

Chris

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