Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: > Yes it's a goal to get rid of setup.py install, but I doubt it will ever > fully be gone. At least not for a long time. There's almost 150k source > dist packages on PyPI and I'm going to assume the vast bulk of them have > a setup.py.
True, but distil seems to be able to install a fair few (certainly the ones which don't do significant special processing in their setup.py, such as moving files around and creating files) without ever executing setup.py. > It's not ideal, but it's also largely only an issue on the machine of > the developer who is packaging the software. If they are fine with the > hacks then there's not a major reason to move them away from that. It's a smaller community than the users of those projects, and I don't know what the numbers of affected developers are. Obviously it's up to each project how they do their stuff, but from my understanding the NumPy/SciPy communities aren't especially happy with the extensions they've had to do (else, why Bento?) Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
