Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On 20 Apr, 2009, at 22:12, Lennart Regebro wrote:
I'm sorry you feel that way, as I've been *trying* to help. I just
still
don't get what the problem is. If I were porting setuptools to
Python 3, I
would *want* it to be circular, even if I had to hack on it a little at
first. So I have a hard time understanding why you don't.
But it CAN NOT be circular under Python 3.
I don't understand why not, doing it may be not entirely trivial but it
should be possible with some trickery. As PJE noted one way to do this
is to explicitly convert setuptools to python 3.x syntax before actually
running setup.py (e.g. his setup3.py file). With some care this could
even be done in setup.py itself.
But even if it's possible to make it circular, is that really a good
design? I think not.
Eric.
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