Tools like setuptools, zc.buildout, etc. seem great for developers but not very good for distributions. At last year's Pycon I think there was agreement from the Linux distributors that distutils, etc. just wasn't very useful for them.
I think distutils is different here - it not only helps creating distributions (i.e. deployable package files), but also allows direct installation. This, in turn, is used to build the packages for Linux distributions. E.g. debian/rules often contains a "setup.py install" call in its build step (and there is even a CDBS python-distutils.mk fragment)
In that sense, distutils is for Python what make is for C. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
