Commit bce190da authored by Jason R. Coombs's avatar Jason R. Coombs Committed by GitHub

Merge pull request #1010 from idlesign/patch-1

Docs: notes on setup.cfg and ez_setup
parents 6f05117f a9d40388
......@@ -1176,6 +1176,8 @@ Distributing a ``setuptools``-based project
Using ``setuptools``... Without bundling it!
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.. warning:: **ez_setup** is deprecated in favor of PIP with **PEP-518** support.
Your users might not have ``setuptools`` installed on their machines, or even
if they do, it might not be the right version. Fixing this is easy; just
download `ez_setup.py`_, and put it in the same directory as your ``setup.py``
......@@ -2277,6 +2279,11 @@ New in 20.1: Added keyring support.
Configuring setup() using setup.cfg files
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.. note:: New in 30.3.0 (8 Dec 2016).
.. important:: ``setup.py`` with ``setup()`` function call is still required even
if your configuration resides in ``setup.cfg``.
``Setuptools`` allows using configuration files (usually `setup.cfg`)
to define package’s metadata and other options which are normally supplied
to ``setup()`` function.
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