[pytest-dev] proposal: experiment with going for setup.cfg metadata for pylib/pytest/pytest-*

[Florian Bruhin]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:10:00AM +0200, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote:
> for demonstrative purposes i experimented with it in
> https://github.com/pytest-dev/apipkg/pull/2

It already seems to break things in various ways on Travis, for
starters.

> in terms of maintenance i def prefer the modern format as its more static
> however it does introduce a requirement on a reasonably recent
> setuptools (30.3.0)

So the only benefit for all the breakage is "it looks a bit nicer",
basically?

> so it may create trouble for from source installs on enterprise distros,
> however wheel based installs are not affected

Not worth the benefit, IMHO. Not at all.

Florian

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