Thomas Lotze wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>
>> How do I automatically get the metadata from my package's setup.py into my
>> conf.py? (eg: version, package name, author, copyright, etc)
>
> If it is OK for you to depend on an additional package, you could use
> pkginfo in your conf.py like this:
>
> import pkginfo
> dist = pkginfo.Develop('.')
Interesting. I might well give this a try...
> You'd have to adapt the path passed to pkginfo.Develop if setup.py and
> conf.py don't live in the same directory.
>
>> I'm using setuptools if that makes it easier...
>
> The setuptools command provided by sphinx doesn't currently make use of
> the metadata provided by setup.py.
What setuptools command is provided by Sphinx? I haven't seen this yet...
> so, but maybe it would be even better to have something like the above in
> sphinx's core,
SOmething like what? I don't follow you...
Chris
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