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+The flit.ini config file
+========================
+
+This file lives next to the module or package.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Flit 0.12 and above uses a :doc:`pyproject.toml file <pyproject_toml>` file
+   to store this information. Run ``python3 -m flit.tomlify`` to convert a
+   ``flit.ini`` file to ``pyproject.toml``.
+
+Metadata section
+----------------
+
+There are four required fields:
+
+module
+  The name of the module/package, as you'd use in an import statement.
+author
+  Your name
+author-email
+  Your email address
+home-page
+  A URL for the project, such as its Github repository.
+
+e.g. for flit itself
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+    [metadata]
+    module=flit
+    author=Thomas Kluyver
+    author-email=thomas@kluyver.me.uk
+    home-page=https://github.com/pypa/flit
+
+The remaining fields are optional:
+
+requires
+  A list of other packages from PyPI that this package needs. Each package
+  should be on its own line, and may be followed by a version specifier in
+  parentheses, like ``(>=4.1)``, and/or an `environment marker
+  <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/#environment-markers>`_
+  after a semicolon. For example:
+
+  .. code-block:: ini
+
+      requires = requests (>=2.6)
+            configparser; python_version == '2.7'
+
+dev-requires
+  Packages that are required for development. This field is in the same format
+  as ``requires``.
+
+  These are not (yet) encoded in the wheel, but are used when doing
+  ``flit install``.
+description-file
+  A path (relative to the .ini file) to a file containing a longer description
+  of your package to show on PyPI. This should be written in `reStructuredText
+  <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html>`_, if your long
+  description is not valid reStructuredText, a warning will be printed,
+  and it will be interpreted as plain text on PyPI.
+classifiers
+  A list of `Trove classifiers <https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers>`_,
+  one per line, indented.
+requires-python
+  A version specifier for the versions of Python this requires, e.g. ``~=3.3`` or
+  ``>=3.3,<4`` which are equivalents.
+dist-name
+  If you want your package's name on PyPI to be different from the importable
+  module name, set this to the PyPI name.
+keywords
+  Comma separated list of words to help with searching for your package.
+license
+  The name of a license, if you're using one for which there isn't a Trove
+  classifier. It's recommended to use Trove classifiers instead of this in
+  most cases.
+maintainer, maintainer-email
+  Like author, for if you've taken over a project from someone else.
+
+Here's the full example from flit itself:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+    [metadata]
+    author=Thomas Kluyver
+    author-email=thomas@kluyver.me.uk
+    home-page=https://github.com/pypa/flit
+    requires=requests
+    requires-python= >=3
+    description-file=README.rst
+    classifiers=Intended Audience :: Developers
+        License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
+        Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+        Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
+
+.. _flit_ini_scripts:
+
+Scripts section
+---------------
+
+Each key and value in this describes a shell command to be installed along with
+your package. These work like setuptools 'entry points'. Here's the section
+for flit:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+    [scripts]
+    flit = flit:main
+
+This will create a ``flit`` command, which will call the function ``main()``
+imported from :mod:`flit`.