Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello > > Here's a wrapup of the Distutils-SIG discussion > we had on the "static metadata" topic. > > I realize that it's a good thing to send in. > python-dev such wrapup on distutils design > decisions, to keep everyone informed and get > more feedback when required. > > I will try to do it for every upcoming changes > that are not going in a PEP process (when it's not > a 'big' change). The rate of such mails should > not be very high. (around 1 mail in python-dev > for +150 mails in distutils-SIG) > > If you feel that what we are about to change in distutils > is wrong, you can go ahead and help us by participating > in Distutils-ML, so we keep one and only one media > for these discussions. > > The four sentences summary for people in a hurry: > > Getting metadata of a distribution that is not. > installed means running its setup.py. This means. > downloading the whole archive, and running. > third party code on your system. > > To avoid it, we are adding a [setup] section in. > setup.cfg where you can express the package metadata > statically. > > Conditional sections, specific to some system. > can be added to add some specific fields in [setup]. > > At the end, you will be able to get metadata fields > without running any third-party code, and possibly > get only the distribution setup.cfg for this.
While it's a good idea to put up some form of meta-data into an index, I wonder why you are using setup.cfg for this. setup.cfg has traditionally been used to configure distutils, not to define meta-data. As such you wouldn't want to put such a configuration file up on PyPI. Wouldn't it be better use a new file for this (with the same syntax), e.g. metadata.cfg ?! This would then just contain the meta data that needs to be published. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 23 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
