Hi Tarek, > 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
Interesting. Well it was discussed on the mailing list extensively last year and I even wrote a PEP proposal that got blocked.. :-) If I understand correctly, these parameters in the setup.cfg file would be similar to those passed into the setup() function to distutils. I'm asking this question, knowing that the answer is probably that it was before your time. But it doesn't hurt asking. Do you have a test suite of parameters for the setup() function in distutils? Whichever way I look at this problem I keep coming back to the issue that unless there is a test suite (TDD style) that can be used as inputs, there's no viable way to come up with equivilent functionality through a metadata based system. To me, there is simply too many combinations of parameters used in funny ways to obtain the results that the developers are after. Does a Parameter testsuite for the setup() function exist for distutils ? If not, should we be considering building one? (for distutils) David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
