Hi list, I'm a Debian developer who is interested in changes you want to introduce so I'll add my 2 cents from time to time if you don't mind.
[Chris Withers, 2009-10-21] > David Lyon wrote: >>> Why is it that you basically want to put an entire module's worth of >>> code inside every single package's setup.py? >> >> Because it is easy. and when there's a bug in this module you want all packages to be reuploaded instead of uploading the one with a bug? We already have to patch setup.py files f.e. to remove ez_setup which hardcodes setuptools versions (so we cannot use newer one) or tries to download packages from internet (that are not really needed at build time). >> Well, 500 lines is just this week. Maybe by next week it will be even more. >> >> If the file is 100kb long, I don't think a user would care. oh, reviewing 100kb setup.py files to see why they don't work with Python 2.X (and worked fine with Python 2.Y) sounds like fun ;-P -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
