2008/10/7 Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the case of BUILDS, I propose to do the same: define a standard whose > cost/benefit ratios are ideally balanced for each participant. This does > not, by the way, mean that everybody ends up with the same cost/benefit > ratio; it simply means that the cost/benefit ratios are best for those > people whose participation is most required for the standard to be widely > adopted. > > You can see that this is also what I did in the design of easy_install and > setuptools, except that in that effort I only considered developers and > users, not system packagers.
I'd argue (you may differ) that the most significant area where you missed the mark on user benefits with easy_install and setuptools is the lack of easy *uninstall* and easy *list* options. Most of the issues I hear from users about setuptools (filtered by my prejudices, admittedly) is that there's no management options (which brings in the system packagers, and their concerns). Can I suggest that this be included somehow in the new spec, so that metadata is available to make wtiting uninstallers and listers as easy as writing installers? Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
