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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Sep 22 20:26:42 CEST 2009

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On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:15, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 15:55, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk_ _> wrote:

ConfigParser recognises both, but other tools (coff ConfigObj) only recognises the latter (=).

So does Mercurial, BTW, because this aspect of ConfigParser was pretty annoying for some of the stuff we try to do (and not at all obvious to most users, who have never seen anything but = used in config-style files). yes, I've just used ConfigParser syntax because that's what Distutils uses. If ':' is deprecated in favor of '=' only, Distutils will be fine with that change. I would be +1 for its deprecation

I don't think : is formally deprecated but = is more common and it
would be great if distutils could default to (and document) this syntax.

Michael

Tarek

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