At 03:04 PM 1/17/2008 -0500, Noah Gift wrote: >I suppose there is going to be some confusion for me in >trying to understand the intersection between disutils and setuptools, >as I am not sure what I am expected to know from distutils and what >setuptools replaces.
The setuptools docs really only document the differences between distutils and setuptools. So if you read them looking for what setuptools claims you *don't* have to do, then you can skip those parts of the distutils. For example, if you are using a revision control system to manage your source files, then you don't need to know the details of how to create a MANIFEST.in file -- something that's mandatory with the distutils in order to create a source distribution or something like an RPM. Regarding your eggs/buildout/etc. chapter, please feel free to email me an early copy for technical review and I'll promptly inform you about any errors. (Unless it's late next week or any time the following week, as I will be busy and not responding to virtually any email whatsoever :) .) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
