On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 June 2018 at 18:45, Bernat Gabor <gaborjber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In the pep it's stated tools can use the tool section >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#id28 and at no point says build >> tools only. So I don't think at all strange that towncrier uses it. It >> follows the words of the pep quite rigourously. > > The whole PEP is about *build* tools, and in that context, that's what > was meant. Maybe the PEP should have been more explicit. Maybe we > should have thought about this at the time. Maybe lots of things, but > the reality is that we *didn't* intend it to be used for non-build > tools, and nevertheless it is being used in that way. We should deal > with things as they are now, and not spend ages debating whether > things "should" be the way they are.
Oh, I totally imagined that it would be used for non-build tools. I was thinking of stuff like pytest when I wrote that 'tool namespace' section, and of the way all kinds of non-build tools had already colonized setup.cfg (cf. Donald's "paving the cow paths"). It's the One Obvious place for project-specific configuration. That's awesome! Python packaging needs more One Obvious things. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/ADS5VOFZFFYWIS43VROBTIQM5B3MYO77/
