On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:04 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 06:31 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: >> >> Let me reformulate that: >> >> > Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to >> > run, >> > test itself, etc. >> >> Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough? > > Because distutils doesn't have an egg_info command, or SVN-based manifest > building (for making sdists).
Why the SVN handling should be part of setup.py anyway? Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
