Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [a long message] > > I'm back at Google and *really* busy for another week or so, so I'll > have to postpone the rest of this discussion for a while. If other > people want to chime in please do so; if this is just a dialog between > Phillip and me I might incorrectly assume that nobody besides Phillip > really cares. >
Since there seems to be a fair number of negative responses to setuptools, I just wanted to add a bit of positive counterbalance. I'm just a random python user that happens to track python-dev a bit, so take all this with the realization that I probably shouldn't have much input into anything. ;) I've been using python for somewhere around 10 years to write various random small scripts, gui applications and recently web applications. For me setuptools is the best thing to happen to python since I've been using it. I develop and deploy on a seemingly constantly changing mix of various flavors of windows and linux. Unlike for others, I love that once I get setuptools installed I can just use the same commands to get the things I need. I guess the contrast for me is that python is the common base that I tend to work from not the underlying OS. So I don't know if I'm part of a large number of quiet users or just happen to be an odd case that works really well with setuptools. I was disappointed when setuptools didn't make it into 2.5 and I really hope it or something very much like it can make it into a release in the near future. Because while setuptools certainly isn't perfect, for me at least, it is much, much better than nothing at all. Brian Haskin _______________________________________________ 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