At 04:13 PM 3/26/2010 -0400, John Posner wrote:
2. In the many areas where disutils/setuptools/distribute provide overlapping functionality, should the Hitchhiker's Guide promote *the one best way* to accomplish a task, or should it compare and contrast the various ways?
It should provide a recommended One Obvious Way for distutils at least - distutils has WAY too many options for how to do things, many of them bad or confusing.
For example, package_dir is evil, and I hope it's going away altogether in distutils2!
(Actually, in general, whereever distutils2 will be following in setuptools' footsteps, that way should probably be the recommended way, with the occasional, "here's what you can do in plain disutils in the meantime.")
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