On 30 March 2015 at 16:56, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Honestly, I don’t think that setup.py as a development interface is that > bad. It gets really bad when we start sticking it inside of a sdist and > using that as part of the installation metadata. > > It’s not unusual for me to want (or need) to do something a little bit > different in a project, or something that the original authors didn’t > quite intend to do. This is perfectly valid and fine inside of a file > that only ever gets executed on a developer machine. However it *needs* > to be “compiled” down to a static file when creating a sdist.
Hmm, I don't think I'd ever really understood the distinction between "development setup" and "sdist" that clearly. I take your point, it's the sdist level that we want to avoid executable metadata formats in. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
