Enhancement proposal for setup.py

[Mauro Cicognini]

Hi all,
since we've now got a Build/ directory containing the various setup.cfg 
files for the different platforms, I thought we could enhance setup.py 
to simply guess the correct CFG and pull that in directly from Build. We 
could also make it recognize a debug build and use a debug CFG.

This comes in handy for me, at least, since this way I put my different 
configs into two different files which don't clutter the main dir and I 
cannot miss settings anymore.

Obviously this should be extended to override this and use a particular 
CFG (esp. when cross-compiling), but I'd say it's a start. Here's the diff:

Index: setup.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python-ldap/python-ldap/setup.py,v
retrieving revision 1.54
diff -u -w -b -r1.54 setup.py
--- setup.py    20 Aug 2003 20:27:10 -0000    1.54
+++ setup.py    26 Aug 2003 10:39:36 -0000
@@ -38,9 +38,17 @@
 
 LDAP_CLASS = OpenLDAP2
 
+# pull the right CFG in
+if '--debug' in sys.argv:
+    debug = 'debug'
+else:
+    debug = 'release'
+setup_cfg = 'Build/%s-%s.setup.cfg' % (sys.platform, debug)
+print "Using " + setup_cfg
+
 #-- Read the [_ldap] section of setup.cfg
 cfg = ConfigParser()
-cfg.read('setup.cfg')
+cfg.read(setup_cfg)
 if cfg.has_section('_ldap'):
     for name in dir(LDAP_CLASS):
         if cfg.has_option('_ldap', name):

How's the idea?

Mauro