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[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Sep 22 20:07:56 CEST 2009 
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>>>    [setup:python_version == '2.4' or python_version == '2.5']
>>>    requires: some_package
>>>       
>> As was brought up on the distutils list, this seems unnecessarily
>> complicated.
>>
>> Other, simpler, solutions were proposed:
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013173.html
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013289.html
>>
>> However, you pronounced yourself bdfl(!):
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013318.html
>>
>> ...and decided to ignore them. Please don't do this over such an important
>> matter.
>>     
>
> Yes, for the syntax bikeshedding on how conditions should be expressed,
> I have decided I'll be some kind of distutils dictator to end up the
> endless discussions
> on how they should be expressed so we can move on.
>   

+1

Michael

> Tarek
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