At 10:05 PM 7/17/2009 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
We will need to carefully look at what we want to do and how we do it after some of the early strong emotional reactions have settled down. Anyone who wants to rewrite setuptools from scratch or thinks "easy_install must die" probably will be very disappointed by the distribute fork.
I'm glad to hear it; that makes it *much* more likely that I will simply bless some version of your package as the "official" setuptools 0.6 "final" series, and merge it back into my trunk whenever I get around to working on the 0.7 versions. (Which might even happen sooner if somebody else is keeping 0.6 fed and watered... thereby decreasing the "work factor" for me.)
(Btw, I'm not sure if you really want to drop entry-points.txt from revision control, since ISTM a fresh checkout will not be able to run egg_info and rebuild it, unless you also add a hack to Distribution.get_command_class() so it (and any other setuptools commands it relies upon) can be found. If it seems to be working as-is, my guess is it's because an already-elsewhere-installed setuptools version on sys.path is providing the glue by way of *its* entry-points.txt. Try it and see!)
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