On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 21:47, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not just invoke: > > python3 -m unittest somemodule.somesuite > > Then there are no dependencies on distutils or setuptools.
Because it needs to run 2to3 on the code first. Also, python3 setup.py install will fail, becuase the installation depends on setuptools, and then I need to do build_py_2to3 on the code, which isn't going to work if the install program depends on setuptools, as it hasn't been converted to Python3 yet. The alternative, which seems less likely, is to rewrite setuptools to run under Python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 without using 2to3. :-D Or of course, continue having a separate source distribution for Python 3 and a bit complicated development process, which is survivable, but I don't think it's a good long term strategy. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
