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'm sure that some implementation of some of the concepts of setuptools will end up in the stdlib - in a well-integrated and distutils compatible form. Perhaps we can even find a way to remove the need for .pth files and long sys.path lists :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 07 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
