On Jun 29, 2011, at 22:17, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
> 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. That would be great. I think I filed the equivalent of setuptools issue 43 on distribute a year or two ago. > There isn't a reason to support vanilla > setuptools anymore once the patch is part of distribute. distribute is > fully backward compatible to setuptoools. Yep, that would be perfect. Andi.. > > See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#about-the-fork for some > background information. > > Christian >
