At 05:59 PM 9/6/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>Only that I personally found editing the files directly to be an enormous >>pain. :) > >Why?
Because I have to create a new file. And if it's a new project, a directory to go with it. Adding arguments to setup() is much easier. Also, setup() arguments are somewhat easier to document. >I'm a little wary of rewriting something that egg_info writes, because >egg_info can rewrite it later. But I suppose the command alias makes it >into a single operation, so it doesn't seem as fragile. Though one >advantage of editing the files is that I could apply strict_requires to a >tag and commit those changes, encapsulating the exact environment that was >used when creating that tag. If your command or commands use a configuration file, or store the info in setup.cfg, you can still do that. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
