K. Richard Pixley wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> For beginners this issue is a showstopper that they cannot resolve >> without help. >> > I'm a relative beginner to distutils/setuptools/distribute, but a long > time configuration/build/packaging professional. You're mistaken if you > think that any of these technologies are suitable for beginners. The > state of python package distribution resembles the state of linux > packages circa 1995, except that it isn't very well documented at all.
As a general question, is there any planned project to improve the state of distutils or replace it? It appears to be one of the weakest parts of the Python system and needs replacing with something much cleaner, better documented and more powerful. Even making something like cmake the standard would help a lot. Jeremy -- jer...@jeremysanders.net http://www.jeremysanders.net/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
