On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:41:40 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd prefer setup.cfg to be totally static. If there are complicated >> if/then/else's needed, they should be in setup.py.
+1 > The template engine will be restricted to "if", and the expression > will be able to ^may only 3 values: > > - the python version > - sys.platform > - os.name That's very, very hard.... It makes it harder for the developer because they must learn yet another templating system. Add half a days work to every developer. >> As soon as this file becomes dynamic, we're back in the situation where >> you >> can't tell what a package requires without installing it, which is >> something >> I'd really like to not have to do. +1 > setup.cfg stays static. We're talking about the ability to add a > setup.cfg.in file, > that generates the setup.cfg file ***without having to run any third > party code***. > > So again, this will not require any installation to run since transforming > a "setup.cfg.in" into a "setup.cfg" will just require a vanilla Python It's still just overly complicated.. > to synthetize = > > if exists(setup.cfg.in): > setup.cfg = distutils.some_func(setup.cfg.in) > else: > nothing > > That's the whole point ! ;) Point is to introduce distutils? haha - why not just use setuptools? > It means that people will be able to read the .cfg file, and if needed > to rebuild for their platform > without any installation required. > > Eventually, PyPI can provide both (.cfg and .cfg.in) as metadata that a > tool can > grab to see what's required for installation, *without installing the > package* I can see your intentions here are good. But what you are suggesting is just overly complicated for what is required. There's no need for a templating engine, in this part of distutils. Yes, introducing a template engine might be good for multi-platform output. But the setup.py and setup.cfg and [setup] sections must be readily understood by the complete novice. That's the point that you don't seem to understand yet. Stop making it non-obvious. No installation system I have ever heard of makes it mandatory to understand a template system to be able to write your "hello world - I'm installed".... script.. Especially when the alternative is just "if os.name == "win32:" .. I see nothing wrong with such a simple piece of python code... Regards David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
