Re: [Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

2013-09-06 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
someone wrote: even though plain distutils would work just fine for a very large subset of packages. Most of my own packages only use setuptools for its dependency resolution, and that's for the most part provided by pip in the future. Another comment from the peanut gallery: This is very,

Re: [Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

2013-09-06 Thread Daniel Holth
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: someone wrote: even though plain distutils would work just fine for a very large subset of packages. Most of my own packages only use setuptools for its dependency resolution, and that's for the most

Re: [Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

2013-09-06 Thread Matt Wilkie
The big one: ALL of the problems I have with building compiled stuff is due to non-python external dependencies. +1 from another peanut. No idea if this is within the problem domain of distutils and/or setuptools, but it is the problem that led to me lurking on this list in the first place.