Chris Withers wrote:
Fred Drake wrote:
I'd rather see the static data in setup.cfg and no setup.py if there's
no need for custom Python code.
Agreed.
I think "python setup.py install" is so idiomatic that it seems silly to
break it for the sake of two lines of python. There's also an element of
"explicit is better than implicit" in the feel of actually running
setup.py...
Of course. But you don't know that there are 2 lines of Python, and you
don't know what they do. The whole point of static metadata is that you
can inspect a distribution without executing arbitrary, unknown code.
Eric.
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