Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In researching the state of packaging, I've been reading the > archives and all the bug reports filed against distutils. > > I'd like though to get some examples of particularly troublesome > uses of setup.py, to pull together and propose some changes to make > their use case a bit easier. So far such cases I've been made aware > of are Twisted, numpy and SciPy. If you know of a tough case where > the developer had to jump through hoops to make it work, please > point me to it. > > I'd also like to get suggestions of improvements to PyPI, which I've > not seen much discussion about.
I know that those in Debian who are involved with packaging Python modules and applications often complain about the state of distutils and setuptools. I don't know what the specific complaints are, though. I'll forward this request to the debian-python list in an attempt to rouse them for feedback. -- \ "Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she | `\ reminds me more of you than you do!" -- Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
