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by digisign 1456 days ago
These are dev written and Python3 read files, the parser of which hasn't changed in a decade. Everyone knows how to write them. The parser is also lenient and handles both kinds of comment. That's enough for simple metadata.

We have a 15 year old setup.cfg in one project at work, many other .ini's... has never been an issue.