On 18 July 2013 17:50, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's for more reasons than it's in the standard library. setuptools has > >> had a lot of misfeatures and a good bit of the angst against not using >> setuptools was due to easy_install not setuptools itself. > > It's hard to disentangle the two - it's not as if the easy_install > functionality is completely separate, and it's possible to change its > behaviour independently. Another thing about setuptools which some don't > especially like is that generated scripts reference pkg_resources, for no > particularly good reason.
It would actually be nice if "pkg_resources" and "setuptools-core" were available as separate PyPI distributions, and setuptools bundled them together with easy_install. It's a *long* way down the priority list thing (and will likely never make it to the top, although it may be more practical once pip vendors the bits it needs). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
