[Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

[Ian Bicking]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
<floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> To me it would seem a little early to start a PEP like this, there's
> been virtually no discussion about this particular proposal nor any
> proof of concept code.  And given the scope of wanting to change the
> entire way build-steps are declared some code that can give experience
> and show the good and bad points seems important to me.

Could an example API be encapsulated in something like this in setup.py?

  from test_this_pep import setup_cfg
  setup(other args, **setup_cfg())

Then packages could be converted to test it out, without breaking the package.

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