On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:19:31AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > > What are the other major reasons people use setuptools? > > - setuptools.find_pacakges built-in SVN support makes a whole class of > packaging errors go away for me. > > - virtualenv makes isolation between different applications sane; > it installs setuptools, and then makes 'easy_install' a pleasure > to use (I still can't believe people use easy_install in their > system Python!)
Why not? They're told to. Go to a random Python package's web page and chances are you'll see "to install it, simply run easy_install MyAwesomePackage". > - entry points serve as crude equivalents of "named utilities" > in the Zope component architecture; they allow an application to > define a class of plug points, which are then filled by other > libraries. These plug points can then be configured together > declaratively (e.g. in an INI file) using their names. Marius Gedminas -- Microsoft -- because God hates us.
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