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by faho 1458 days ago
These files are already in toml, so it's only "unnecessary" if you ask for them to switch the file format.

Otherwise, adding tools to the standard library to read file formats required by the ecosystem is a good idea, regardless of whether you agree with the particular format.

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They fixed a problem that they created.

History has shown that worrying about an incompatibility with the moribund Python 2 that never affected trivial packaging config was a waste of time.

Meanwhile we still have a setup.cfg on a work project, has worked without issue for 15+ years.