On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Chris Withers<ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> Here's a demo of what I was thinking of adding in Distutils: >> >> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/staticmetadata/ >> >> It uses Mako just for the proof of concept, README.txt explains how it >> works >> >> Let me know how this fits your needs, > > A couple of things: > > - I've never had to use anything that would require the kind of templating > being discussed here, so please make setup.cfg "just work" if setup.cfg.in > isn't there.
That's the case > > - I think any kind of templating language is *way to heavyweight*. If you > need anything more than simple string substitution, then the code should be > in setup.py Well, the point is to be able to define sections in a static file that will be used without having to execute any code in the distribution. For example being able to express: "if the target python is version 2.6 the dependencies are ..." The goal is to be able to run that part on a vanilla Python. without having to rely on the distribution's setup.py Cheers Tarek > > cheers, > > Chris > > -- > Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
