Christian Heimes wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Maybe once we get easy_install as a part of the core (so there's no need >> to find and run ez_setup.py to start with) things will start to improve. >> This is an issue the whole developer community needs to take seriously >> if we are interested in increasing take-up. > > setuptools and easy_install won't be included in Python 2.6 and 3.0: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0365/ > Yes, and yet another release (two releases) will go out without easy access to the functionality in Pypi. PEP 365 is a good start, but Pypi loses much of its point until new Python users get access to it "out of the box". I also appreciate that resource limitations are standing in the way of setuptools' inclusion (is there something I can do about that?) Just to hammer the point home, however ...
The easy_install utility from setuptools is probably the biggest potential recruiter for Python. It makes the language accessible to the majority of users who are interested only in acquiring new functionality, and not at all in which language that functionality is implemented in. Installation of the latest/most appropriate version of something then becomes a simple recipe without command switches regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
