-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 20:18, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If anyone wants to work on it, or comment, >> Some comments: >> >>> "MANIFEST.in is fine" >> Except that it introduces Yet Another Domain Specific Language. Wtf >> does "prune" mean? It's not obvious. The docs indicate that it >> actually excludes, but why it's not called "exclude" is then strange. >> We already have a language, Python. We don't need more. ;-) >> >> And the fact that is uses a separate file doesn't help. >> >> Yes, I know I'm just whining. But I don't agree that MANIFEST.in is >> fine. I think it is unfine. :) > > I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of > a pure python description. Then people strongly objected.
I want *less* stuff (ideally nothing) spelled in imperative Python, with some common declarative file replacing both the information currently in setup.py and MANIFEST.in. I thought we were in agreement that non-introspectable metadata was a Bad Thing(TM)? http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StaticMetadata Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ3JdV+gerLs4ltQ4RAhGbAJ4in8+UOgM5GJ/3ISGfU2VHLVh4tgCg13O1 qx4oVMxLRJXHUz794mW2UyM= =pgtS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig