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Introduce setup.cfg

See original GitHub issue

The best development in the python packaging field in the last years is the introduction of the setup.cfg:

declarative description
simple to read
easy to diff

It reduces the need for error prone, cargo cult boilerplate code in the setup.py. A nice setup.py should look like this (if it should exist at all):

from setuptools import setup

if __name__ == "__main__":
    setup()

IMHO, the rest should be declaratively described without arbitrary code execution in the setup.cfg

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Created 6 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

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ofekcommented, Sep 1, 2017

-1 to setup.cfg, it’ll be deprecated soon anyway

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KOLANICHcommented, Jul 23, 2019

@navdeep-G

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