package_dir in setup.cfg

[hectormartinezdev]

Setuptools version: 38.4.0
Python version: 2.7.12
Ubuntu version: 16.04

Hey! I'm moving all my options from setup.py to setup.cfg so I can have a clean setup.py:

"""Minimal setup.py."""
from setuptools import setup
from setuptools.config import read_configuration

conf_dict = read_configuration('setup.cfg')

setup()

But I'm having a problem with the package_dir option.

My package lives inside src folder and while I can do package_dir={"":"src"} in the setup.py, but I can't use it properly in the setup.cfg.

What I tried so far? (I tried more combinations, but they give an error)

[options]
package_dir =
    . = src

[options]
package_dir =
    "" = "src"

[options]
package_dir =
   "."  = src

With this options, when I run python setup.py egg_info it leads to.. "package directory <package_name> not found".

Any insight? Thank you :D

[hectormartinezdev]

I'm sorry for opening this, the combination:

[options]
package_dir =
     = src

works fine for Python3, but for Python 2 still fails.

It is related with #1136 and will be fixed with the #1180 I suppose. Until them, I will put packages_dir in the setup.py.