On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: [..] > However, it would be nice if setuptools/distribute supported something like > this out of the box. The important thing is to have exactly one place to set > the package's version number.
For metadata fields like "version", one option I am working on in Distutils itself is to have a complementary section in the static setup.cfg file, where you can set some fields: [setup] name=foo version=1.9.8 Once setup() is run, the Distribution class will look at this file, to complete the options provided by code; Of course this supposes that the version is not calculated by some code (like in your solution). But I think a plain, non-development version, can be static. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
