On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Phillip J. Eby wrote: [...] > Hm. So it seems to me that maybe one thing that would help is a > "Setuptools Haters' Guide To Setuptools" -- that is, *short* > documentation specifically written for people who don't want to use > setuptools and want to minimize its impact on their systems. I could [...] > Can I count on some non-assimilated persons' help in critiquing such > a document and suggesting any topics I miss?
Speaking as a zombie, I used to suggest that the yet-to-be-assimilated download my source distribution and run: python setup.py easy_install --no-deps . (and somehow arrange for dependencies to be installed, too) If that's reasonable and up-to-date advice, perhaps it could be part of this "setuptools :q!" guide... John _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig