On Friday,2009-07-17, at 14:05 , Hanno Schlichting wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Leonardo
Santagada<[email protected]> wrote:
Setuptools is dead, but the fork should be named something else
just to show that development doesn't have anything to do with the
way setuptools and is in fact a new and live project. People that
were burned by setuptools should give distribute a new chance.
...
Anyone who wants to rewrite setuptools from scratch or thinks
"easy_install must die" probably will be very disappointed by the
distribute fork.
I'm not one of those people, but I know a lot of people who have
burned by setuptools and who might give it another chance once
"respect the PYTHONPATH" [1] and "be more like distutils with regard
to --prefix=" [2] are fixed.
Regards,
Zooko
[1] http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53
[2] http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue54
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