On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote:
> > > On 05/29/2012 08:19 AM, PJ Eby wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com > > <mailto:erik.m.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > This particular solution works for me. But the point is that it can > > be done pretty easily. However, the lack of a setup_requires-like > > feature still makes things pretty impossible short of shipping a copy > > of all the required setup hooks with the projects that use them. > > Certainly doable, but far from ideal. > > > > > > Right, and I don't think distutils2 can really add setup_requires > > without blessing a package manager. > > I'm confused by this statement. distutils2 _includes_ a package manager > (pysetup); it has no need to bless an external one. What am I missing? > I might be confused; I haven't been following the goings-on of late with distutils2. At one point, I thought the plan was not to bless or include dependency-managing installers with the stdlib, or something like that. i.e., I thought the plan wasn't to support or bless full-service tools like buildout, easy_install, or pip, or anything comparable to them.
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