On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 at 07:53, Steve Holden wrote:
I don't claim to have all the answers, but distutils and setuptools are for the savvy users - people who build distros and those who maintain their own systems independent of their distribution's packaging standard. As time goes by, however, and the Lunix installed base continues to grow, the majority of users will expect to rely on the standard installation mechanisms of their distribution, and that will never be setuptools or distutils.
+1. Or any other Python-only package manager. And that goes at least double for Windows :) I am (among other things) a software developer, and I am quite capable of maintaining my own python installation outside the system one, and do so for testing and development. But for anything else, I rely on the system package manager to install my Python packages. If the extension hasn't been packaged for my distribution, I typically will either not use it, or I will install it somewhere other than the system default location. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.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
