Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-15 Thread Andi Vajda
On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:42, Bill Janssen wrote: Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setup

Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Felix Schwarz wrote: > Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: > > If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared > > library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. > > Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setuptools > fork. I know that some Linux distr

Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-15 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setuptools fork. I know that some Linux distributions are using distribute alre

Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-14 Thread Andi Vajda
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Bill Janssen wrote: Andi Vajda wrote: Bill, could you please expand a bit on that red flag you just alluded to for those of us who don't follow the distutils list. The big problem with setuptools is that it's a widely ambitious package with featuritis and I-know-better

why not setuptools?

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Janssen
Andi Vajda wrote: > Bill, could you please expand a bit on that red flag you just alluded > to for those of us who don't follow the distutils list. The big problem with setuptools is that it's a widely ambitious package with featuritis and I-know-better-itis, maintained from a private codebase b