On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:21:15 -0700, "Sridhar Ratnakumar"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> More often developers may want to assign the contents of README.txt to
the 
> 
> `long_description` field. I have seen setup.py's that simply do:
> 
>    long_description = open('README.txt').read()

Perphaps:

[setup]
name: foo
version: 1.0
author: tarek
long_description_file: README.txt

> If one is to use setup.cfg, how would this particular case be handled?  
> Override `long_description` in setup.py .. 

Perphaps. 

> or provide a Config variable  ($README)?

I'm not keen on that because I don't fully understand it. I think
the first option should be clear enough.

David



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