On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM, zooko <zo...@zooko.com> wrote: >> Why not? Aren't there setuptools plugins available for the common DVCSes? > > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_hg > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_darcs > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_bzr > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools-git > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_mtn
One particular annoyance is that the svn integration built-in to setuptools tends to break every time a major release of Subversion comes out (e.g. setuptools broke when 1.5 came out, is probably currently broken with 1.6, etc.). The "stable" version of setuptools was broken wrt. svn 1.5 for so long that someone made a temporary fork of setuptools and provided a svn 1.5 compatible build. It was annoying to say the least, because it prevented us from upgrading to 1.5 for a while. Given what setuptools is trying to accomplish I think its release cycle is just too slow... although I am grateful it exists because it saves me of having to remember a substantial quantity of distutils minutiae and it does in general make it easier for me to install (most) things. -bob _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
