On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I said above, "it *also* scales better for performance" -- i.e., it's a > secondary concern. ok. > The #1 reason for separating metadata files is that it > makes the addition of new metadata much easier than maintaining a single > monolithic format. Do you still think it is true today ? I am asking because AFAIK, there aren't many packages besides setuptools which use those metadata ? I don't mean to criticize the design, just to see if you would do things differently today. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
