At 12:28 AM 9/12/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The second motivation is : why do I need to run some code to get the
>> metadata fields ?
>
> Turning the config file into code means you'd be running code. :)
Well that's very different. You will be running a function that is
provided in the stdlib,
in a vanilla Python, and that will be restricted to string comparisons
basically.
In other words, it is more likely to be a translation of setup.cfg
into a "localized"
setup.cfg.
But in that case, why not just have a 100% static format without any
dynamic content whatsoever, and run a "configure.py" or some such
(perhaps "distconfig.py") to generate it? Since it's not setup.py,
there are no backward compatibility issues, and we can actually get
the full benefit of environment-specific configuration (e.g. library
locations, etc.).
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