Sorry all -- on vacation and only semi-online for a while... I'd managed to miss Flit's creation, so I simply wasn't aware of it. > > Now that I've had a chance to remedy that oversight, yes, flit sounds > exactly like what I meant, so it could be worth recommending it ahead of a > full distutils/setuptools based setup.py for simple projects. > neither did I - and it does look intriguing, though not (yet) what I had in mind. "my" idea of setuptool-lite would be a drop-in replacement for the parts of setuptools that we want to continue to support. i.e. not nearly as crippled as flit.
That being said, *I* don't have any use for pkg_resources, so maybe flit is pretty close :-) but sdists are key. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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