On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > Setuptools non-support for Python 3 is currently a serious hindrance > towards Python 3 aceptance. I'm trying to figure out what to do as a > next step in the Python 3 support for setuptools. And I have > encountered some obstacles. The first one is that setuptools requires > itself for installing and running tests. That makes it hard to install > it under Python 3. There are various solutions to this, but the next > obstacle I encounter in choosing the right solution is that the code > is hard to understand, and it makes me want to just rip it out and > start over, or in even more frustrated moments, avoid the problems by > not using setuptools at all. But the third obstacle for that is that I > don't actually know what features of setuptools people use. > > I personally use setuptools for these reasons: > > 1. When I create projects with paster, it uses setuptools. > 2. Setuptools makes it possible to specify requirements, which is then > used by buildout. > 3. Namespace packages require pkg_resources? > 4. The test command. > > What are the other major reasons people use setuptools? >
entry points (in the "how to extend commands" topic I might propose to include it/use it but it would need to be separated from pkg_resources) > Is there any good reason to not extract the namespace package support > into a separate package? It's on its way http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/pep-0382.txt and PEP 345 is being reworked to include requires http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/branches/jim-update-345/pep-0345.txt Anyways, you can probably help if you worked on pkg_resources, by splitting all its components in pep-8-ied, readable elements in your branch Cheers Tarek > > -- > Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok > http://regebro.wordpress.com/ > +33 661 58 14 64 > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
