On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28:22PM -0700, Vinzent Steinberg wrote: >> Could you be please more concrete and tell what "interesting" >> consequences are to be expected? > > For instance you can no longer override the import of a module by > installation a newer version of it... unless you use setuptools. Users > also get confused as to what is imported, and this results in strange bug > reports. > >> Do you think distutils is better than setuptools? > > It is orthogonal. These two tools attempt to solve two different > problems: installation and packaging. > >> I want it to work like every good Windows installer. It should remove >> old files and not break installations. > > I don't know if it does this for windows. It certainly does not do this > for Linux. > >> Guido for example apparently does not agree with you. :) (http:// >> mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063964.html) > > That's old news. There has been quite a flame at Pycon this year (2008) > about setuptools. I do not have the impression Guido is terribly > satisfied with the state of the project. The problem is that it is the > only project trying to tackle this challenge. > > Gaël Hi, I was just trying to find out about "the general acceptance" of setuptools in the python community. It seems impossible: python.org does not seem to mention it at all --except PEP 365 -- Adding the pkg_resources module -- which was rejected and PEP 361 -- Python 2.6 and 3.0 Release Schedule --which makes it sound like it is already in Python 2.5
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