On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Éric Araujo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the pointer, is there anyway to use another filename other >> than setup.cfg? >> I am trying to build several related package from a common root? > In the current code the filename must be setup.cfg. I think the rise of > distributed version control systems and usable packaging tools like pip > and buildout (and setuptools’ namespace package feature) have encouraged > the separation of projects into separate libraries, each one with its > repository and setup.py file. That may be the reason why setup.cfg is > hard-coded in distutils2.
It was likewise awkward to name setup.py anything other than setup.py. I have a few VCS projects that contain multiple Python projects in separate directories: http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/trunk/ http://svn.zope.org/bobo/trunk/ This has worked fine for me. I might like more flexibility, not sure, but the current limitation probably makes installers simpler, which is worthwhile imo. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
