[Zope3-dev] Re: the maintenance of change logs

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 22 September 2006 12:52, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>> I hope we can move to a pattern where projects gain a homepage somewhere
>>> on zope.org, including doctests and some other information, and the
>>> cheeseshop is used for everything else (pointing to the homepage on
>>> zope.org with the 'url' field in setup.py).
>>
>> Yep, me too. Sigh, I have to get to work again on the software site.
> 
> It could be argued that, given existing tools like pypi and launchpad, 
> that we should focus on other things.

+1 on reusing common infrastructure that's open to a broader Python 
community.

>> Something that really disturbs me about the current setup info is
>> that the meta data lives in a Python call and not in a text file
>> that makes it very hard for other software to extract.
> 
> Well, with eggs, the meta data ends up in files that can be extracted.  
> You can always run setup to generate this information if you don't have 
> an egg yet.

Right. Or in old-skool distutils world, you can use a setup.cfg file: 
http://docs.python.org/dist/setup-config.html