Tarek Ziadé wrote:
== The fate of setup.py, and static metadata ==
So we are going to separate the metadata description from setup.py, in
a static configuration file, that can be open and read by anyone
without
running any code.
<snip>
So we've worked on that lately in Distutils-SIG and came up with a
micro-language, based on a ConfigParser file, that allows
writing metadata fields that depends on sys.platform etc. I won't
detail the syntax here but the idea is that the interpretation
of this file can be done with a vanilla Python without running arbitrary code.
I don't understand how the above two paragraphs are compatible.
So I am adding this in Distutils for 2.7.
NB: There was no consensus on this "micro-language" on distutils-sig.
While I suspect I don't care as none of my packages rely on anything
other than other python packages, others did care, and I found the
syntax Tarek was proposing pretty clumsy.
Does the PEP386 or the changes you're proposing for PEP314 cater for the
extra_requires stuff in setuptools? I know I use that quite heavily and
I'm not the only one...
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