On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:52:38 +0100, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> Yes, as long as the metadata are in a python file, you're in trouble >> to automate anything like you are mentioning. >> But a static metadata system needs to provide a registery mechanism, >> so we can call some arbitrary code >> when some metadata are generated at installation time for instance. > > I don't follow this at all. Why is arbitrary code needed?
I think what he means is that he doesn't like the way it is at the moment and thinks that the version numbers and other metadata should sit in a config file somewhere. Then the setup.py can be generated from the metadata.. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
