Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > > Yes, I could see that. setuptools plays all kinds of games to achieve > > its ends, some of them broken. Thank heaven for distutils2/packaging. > > What ? another 'dist' thing ? > So that leaves us with distutils 1, 2, setuptools and distribute. My informa= > tion may be incomplete, out of date or incorrect, of course :-)
Yes, after all, an hour has gone by :-). Distutils2 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2) is the Python 2.x name for the new Python 3 packaging system, called, imaginatively enough, "packaging". It replaces "distutils" in Python 3.3. So the "correct" thing to do is to use "distutils2" for Python 2.x-3.2, and "packaging" thereafter; the data files and operation should be the same for both. "setup.py" is gone; long live "setup.cfg". "easy_install" is gone; long live "pysetup run". Bill
