Tarek Ziadé wrote:
At Python and PyPI level, 'Setuptools' is PJE's project and he's the
one that manages the list of users that have
extended rights on his project.
Indeed, if only he would see sense :-(
In Distribute, our setup.py script makes sure setuptools is not in the
way. It is explicit and documented,
and there's a documentation explaining how to switch back to Setuptools.
It's a hack though...
This exists only because there's no way yet in Python to say that a
distribution can't run when another distribution is installed.
I don't this should ever be needed, except in this edge case caused by
one man's stubbornness...
Distribute developers will of course promote Distutils usage
everywhere, but hijacking setuptools in PyPI
would be a very bad thing imho.
*sigh* I don't see it as hijacking, provided Guido is making a BDFL
pronouncement that you're maintaining this software and PJE finally sees
sense and accepts that.
Chris
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