On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >>> Imagine a command with the name "foo", that has an option called >>> "condition". > > If you really want to keep the entire keyword namespace > available for use as a section sees fit, it would be better > to put the conditions inside the section headers, as I > suggested earlier. > > I think that would also make it easier to see which > sections are conditional when looking through the file.
yes, that's another option. It just feel weird to my eyes but I guess that's just me.. So this would be: """ [global] verbose: 1 [setup] name: MyDistribution version: 1.0 [setup:sys_platform == 'win32'] requires: pywin32 [setup:sys_platform == 'darwin'] requires: foo [setup:'linux' in sys_platform] requires: bar [foo] verbose: 1 condition: badababdalolo """" I am not including 'requires' in the section like you have previously shown, since it's a metadata field and since we will probably have other fields in these section (see PEP 341 proposals like 'obsoles') Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
