On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 22:56, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> Maybe not, but the Distribute feature is there because IMO the >> distutils feature by itself isn't particularily useful. You need to >> write your own distutils extensions, in practice, and they are not >> trivial. > > I wouldn't say that. My Django port works with bare distutils (as > does Django itself), and it works fine. > > That distribute had to redo it is only because setuptools *replaces* > the build_py command, as does the 2to3 support in distutils. So only > if you have a different build_py already, you can't use what is in > distutils.
Yeah, you are right, I misremembered. The actual additional feature is the support for the test command. Testing under Python 2 and 3 without it is annoying. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ 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
