Ian Bicking wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Floris Bruynooghe > <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> To me it would seem a little early to start a PEP like this, there's >> been virtually no discussion about this particular proposal nor any >> proof of concept code. And given the scope of wanting to change the >> entire way build-steps are declared some code that can give experience >> and show the good and bad points seems important to me. >> > > Could an example API be encapsulated in something like this in setup.py? > > from test_this_pep import setup_cfg > setup(other args, **setup_cfg()) > > Then packages could be converted to test it out, without breaking the package. >
This would work for the parts which are concerned using static metadata for what exists in distutils, but it would not work for pre_install, etc... The only way I can think to make this work is to actually generate a setup.py (or in the other direction, to generate a setup.info from setup.py). I think it is much better long-term solution for a 'distutils v2' than trying to fix the existing code, but it is certainly a lot of work, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
