I'll be sure to address that before the final release. I have been tempted to just support sdist installs and follow the technique that Distribute used, except for this one comment I heard in person by a newer Windows user recently, that they still hear that Setuptools is still considered friendlier than Distribute.
But if PJE is on board with source installs, now is a good time for that switch, so let's do it. > -----Original Message----- > From: PJ Eby [mailto:p...@telecommunity.com] > Sent: Saturday, 25 May, 2013 18:45 > To: Jason R. Coombs > Cc: distutils-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Distutils] Announcing Setuptools 0.7b3 > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> > wrote: > > https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads > > You may be already aware of this, but the installation instructions don't > match the available downloads. I was previously thinking we should just > drop binary distributions of setuptools altogether anyway, and make > ez_setup.py the standard way to install setuptools on all platforms. (Which > would help address things like installation conflicts w/existing Distribute, > etc.)
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