On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:49:14AM +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Alia Khouri wrote: > > > What ideas do people out there have for making the installation of > > python module more reliable? > > judging from the support load it's causing me these days, setuptools is a > piece of utter crap. if you want to make things reliable, don't use it. setuptools is still alpha. Give it another 6months to a year and you will wonder how we ever got along without it.
> > (if the various "rails" cloners want people to use their stuff, it would be a > lot better is they shipped complete and well-tested source code kits, and > left the packaging to the huge crowd of nice, friendly, and competent > downstream packagers that exist for all major platforms these days. the Which downstream packager exists for Windows, or is Windows not a major platform anymore? Besides many useful modules are not important enough to be picked up by packagers for some distributions. For instance, Gentoo does not have RuleDispatch. > downstream folks know what they're doing, and the tools they're using > happens to work. both for the maintainers and for the users.) > > </F> > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list