higery <shoulderhig...@gmail.com> added the comment:

>>IIUC the support for setup.py is transitional, i.e. "legacy support", for 
>>existing packages transitioning from distutils/setuptools/Distribute to 
>>packaging. New features should not rely on the existence of setup.py.

I know, the implementation way of scripts has nothing to do with the setup.cfg 
or setup.py, these two files are just different ways to offer configuration 
values. So just don't worry about that.

What the I try to express here is :
There are two kinds of configuration files supported in Packaging, and you can 
say it maybe a transition consideration from  distutils/setuptools to 
Packaging, but if you look into the documents of Packaging(you can generate it 
from the /Doc directory), you will get to know that Packaging has a more 
further and important consideration - setup.cfg and setup.py place different 
roles in a project, setup.py offers developers to set while setup.cfg offers 
users to edit in a cheap and easy way... Certainly you can set anyone of these 
two files to reach the same goal. Just visit 
/Doc/build/html/packaging/configfile.html to know more about the different 
roles of these two configuration files.

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