Tres Seaver wrote:
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Greg Ewing wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Yeah, but *is* dropping backward compatibility an option here?
I'm not sure the concept of backward compatibility
makes sense here. The only kind of distutils replacement
I would be interested in would have a completely different
API, completely different structure and completely
different implementation. Anything less would fail to
fix the problems we want to fix.
Given that, what would it even *mean* for the new tool
to be backward compatible with distutils?
I think a tool which was willing to fake being distutils enough to
extract information from existing 'setup()' calls would probably be
enough, myself, so that:
$ python <bbb_extractor_script>.py setup.py
would create the equivalent of PKG_INFO / EGG_INFO on disk, where it
could then be used to drive the new installer.
pyinstall does exactly this, like:
python -c "import setuptools; __file__='setup.py';
execfile('setup.py')" egg_info
well, it's slightly more involved, because the Package.egg-info/
directory is written in the base of the package, which might be
./Package.egg-info, or ./src/Package.egg-info -- to avoid this I add
--egg-base=pyinstall-egg-info so that the egg info always goes in the
same location. Anyway, setuptools already fakes distutils in exactly
the way you describe.
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