On Feb 27, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm generally +1 on hooks, the failure of setup.py isn't particularly that > it's executable, it's that you can't access the metadata without executing > it. In general hooks also allow people to easily disable them during install > if they don't wish for that (of course packages have no reason to support that > if they don't want to). I pretty much agree. I'd be happy – enthusiastic, even – for Twisted to update to some static metadata expression system. -glyph
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