On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
Jim Fulton wrote:
Of course, it's depressing that a packaging system requires so much
experimentation to understand.
Worse still is when the implementation disagrees with the
documentation...
And when we have two systems that purport to be the same (distutils
and setuptools) in this respect, and neither work...
The approach that setuptools took was reasonable in many ways and it
achieves quite a bit. It's reasonable to try to work "within the
system". Distutils intends to provide an extensible architecture and
setuptools builds on that. It achieves major improvements over
distutils. With all it's warts, I'm still very thankful for it.
Jim
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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation
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