Re: [Python-Dev] no consensus on static metadata

2009-10-09 Thread Georg Brandl
Chris Withers schrieb: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> NB: There was no consensus on this "micro-language" on distutils-sig. >>> While I suspect I don't care as none of my packages rely on anything other >>> than other python packages, others did care, and I found the syntax Tarek >>> was proposing pretty

Re: [Python-Dev] no consensus on static metadata

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: NB: There was no consensus on this "micro-language" on distutils-sig. While I suspect I don't care as none of my packages rely on anything other than other python packages, others did care, and I found the syntax Tarek was proposing pretty clumsy. Please no bikeshedding again

Re: [Python-Dev] no consensus on static metadata

2009-10-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > >> So I am adding this in Distutils for 2.7. > > NB: There was no consensus on this "micro-language" on distutils-sig. > While I suspect I don't care as none of my packages rely on anything other > than other python packages, others did care,

[Python-Dev] no consensus on static metadata

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: == The fate of setup.py, and static metadata == So we are going to separate the metadata description from setup.py, in a static configuration file, that can be open and read by anyone without running any code. So we've worked on that lately in Distutils-SIG and came up wi