P.J. Eby wrote:
At 07:27 PM 10/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Having more competition will also help, e.g. ActiveState's PyPM looks
promising (provided they choose to open-source it) and then there's
pip.
Note that both PyPM and pip use setuptools as an important piece of
their implementation (as does buildout), so they are technically the
competition of easy_install, rather than setuptools per se.
IOW, putting setuptools in the stdlib wouldn't be declaring a victor
in the installation tools competition, it'd simply be providing
infrastructure for (present and future) tools to build on.
I'd like to see PEP 370 (user site-packages folders) compatibility as a
pre-condition of moving Distribute (or components of it) into the
standard library.
There are some issues around PEP 370 for alternative implementations
that I'd like to address as a compatibility fix for Python 2.6 as well. :-)
Michael
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