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I maintain over 50 public packages with setup.py and most of them have setupmeta, it's great and I would recommend it for all use cases.
by 1337shadow 6y ago
I maintain over 50 public packages with setup.py and most of them have setupmeta, it's great and I would recommend it for all use cases.
- amarshall 6y agoSure, and that’s fine. My statement was based off https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/ https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/ > dynamic metadata [(setup.py)] should be used only as an escape hatch when absolutely necessary.
- 1337shadow 6y agoDynamic version numbers based on git tags are absolutely necessary to me, to ease my continuous integration practice, that's also what openstack/pbr does amongst probably other things