Am 29.06.2011 18:13, schrieb Andi Vajda: > Sigh. The setuptools story is getting worse. I wonder how the 'distribute' > project is doing... It's the solution I used for the Python 3.1 jcc port I > did last summer. In particular, I wonder if they integrated my patch, for > that issue 43 I filed like four years ago. > > Do you know if there is a way to detect this special version of setuptools ? > If so, I could ensure the patch is applied if still needed.
'They' for setuptools is really just P.J. Eby. There hasn't been any serious development on setuptools in the past few years. Luckily Tarek has forked setuptools and started his work on distribute and distutils2. He is a very active developer and IMHO open to new ideas. Have you talked to him about the requirements for JCC? I'm sure he is going to integrate your patch soonish. There isn't a reason to support vanilla setuptools anymore once the patch is part of distribute. distribute is fully backward compatible to setuptoools. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#about-the-fork for some background information. Christian
