On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:02, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote: > distutils is not a `package management` tool, because it doesn't know > anything even about installed packages
With that definition, there are no packaga management tools for Python. So it's going to be pretty hard to ship one with 2.7. > `pip` and `distribute` are unknown for a vast majority of Python > users, so if you have a perspective replacement for `easy_install` - > it can be said in bootstrap package message. There is no problem with > packages that require `setuptools` either - they will require > `setuptools` as dependency anyway. > > For now there are two questions: > 1. Are they stable enough for the replacement of user command line > `easy_install` tool? Yes. But that's the wrong question. The correct question is: Are they stable enough to be included in standard library. And the answer is "no". > 2. Which one is the recommended? Both. -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.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
