Lennart Regebro wrote: > > It's a practical default. > It is practical on the short term, but a pain in the long term. The single most problematic aspect of distutils (and the tools above it) is all this magic which works in some simple cases, and breaks in other, without any way to circumvent it. A distribution tool has to be simple and customizable, not magic.
For example, all those different, slightly different behaviors of what goes where means that depending on whether you use distutils, setup.py sdist, paver sdist, setuptools setup.py sdist, your tarball is different. That's just insane, and the only way to make it work is to have *one simple way* to tell what goes where. Distutils should be simplified, not made even more complicated. Tarball generation is typically an area where there is too much magic. If there is one simple way to make sdist, then you can build your own tools to integrate with your DVCS if you want. But the data produced and fed by/from tools have to be simple. Put the magic in the tools, not in the data :) cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
