@patrick We used to call this "Uber Super Meta Programming." Not writing the application, but writing classes that make it easier to create the classes that implement the application.

It's not wrong, but it's so bafflingly indirect that it breaks the tools.

@slott56 mmh, maybe the design I have is bad, basically I'm writing a tool that supports plugins (which are Python classes), these plugins can be configurable (there's a base class that has the validation for the config.

I basically wanted to make sure that a plugin's configuration was properly typed without having to define the configuration type (since we are defining the configuration class already)