I'll share my thoughts on the other points when I have some time, but
I'd like to address this one now:
Paul Moore wrote:
PS I have a paranoid feeling that there's a subtext somewhere here to
the effect that participants in the discussion don't see why there's
such a big deal, as everyone should be using
setuptools/easy_install/eggs anyway. Please let's avoid getting into
that here. Can we assume for the purposes of this discussion that
easy_install and eggs are not relevant, as the target audience for the
bdist_ commands is *precisely* those people who don't want to use
setuptools?
I'm a huge user of bdist_rpm. I definitely agree that easy_install and
eggs are not relevant to this discussion. This is only about distutils
and what it includes.
And while I'm for removing the bdist_* commands from distutils, I'm
neutral on removing their functionality from the standard library. I
think they'll all ultimately require a lot of work as distutils evolves.
Eric.
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