Phillip J. Eby wrote: > As of this release, the installation instructions have been changed to > support installation via RPM, .exe (Windows) or "sh > setuptools-whatever.egg". In other words, ez_setup.py is no longer needed > or recommended for user installation of setuptools. > Fantastic! That was my major remaining gripe with setuptools :-) And its great to see the installers all available on pypi (in 0.6c5 form now of course) > Prior to the final release of setuptools 0.6, I intend to update ez_setup > to do one or both of the following things: > > 1. It will detect and download the current stable setuptools release from > the Cheeseshop, AND/OR > > 2. It will instruct the user to visit the cheeseshop page and follow the > installation instructions there. > > I'm not sure yet which is the best approach, so I'll probably just do both. > :) > What about 3. It will ask the user if it wants to do 1, and otherwise do 2.
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