On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > It does have the advantage that tools for manipulating the format can > remain dumber, but that doesn't seem like *that* much of an advantage, > especially since any such benefit could be eliminated completely by > just switching to a completely standard ConfigParser format by putting > the PEP defined settings into a [python] section. > To be more specific, there is setup.cfg (which I dislike for other reasons), and then there is METADATA. setup.cfg is an ini file but METADATA is a simple key: value file with a flat namespace so any namespacing you want to do in METADATA needs to be done at the key level. You could translate:
[setuptools] requires-dist=foo in a setup.cfg into setuptools-requires-dist: foo in METADATA, but I'm not sure if that would be beneficial or not.
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