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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> Right. Or in old-skool distutils world, you can use a setup.cfg file:
>> http://docs.python.org/dist/setup-config.html
> 
> Oddly, the setup.cfg file is not used as a source for much of the
> metadata passed to the setup() function, AFAICT.  The documented
> structure certainly suggests that only arguments to specific commands
> can be represented in that file.

See, I know I shouldn't have used my half-baked knowledge on distutils 
here ;).

Actually, I was recently told that one of the advantages of JARs are 
that the META-INF data is actually more easily read and written than the 
EGG-INFO stuff. Again, I'm pretending not to know much here ;)