On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Lennart Regebro<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/6 Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]>: >> Yes it's needed. Even if some people switch to Distribute in their >> projects, as soon as you install >> a project that is still on Setuptools, it will overwrite Distribute >> files with no warning. > > But wait... if you install distribute, and you then install a project > that depends on setuptools, you say it will be installed.
no, it will be faked. meaning that just the PKG-INFO will be presented, thus detected by pkg_resources. But at the end the setuptools *package*, the pkg_resources.py and site.py files will be the one installed by setuptools. > > But... isn't it distribute doing that installation? In that case, we > could just not install setuptools? :-) Not sure what you mean here. > > -- > Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok > http://regebro.wordpress.com/ > +33 661 58 14 64 > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
