On 5 Oct, 2009, at 16:25, 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.
I didn't say that distutils is suitable for beginners, but beginners
to use them and are confused when they stop working.
Easy_install certainly isn't, and never has been. My first
questions about easy_install, (how do I get a list of installed
packages? How do I upgrade all installed packages? How do I delete
a package using easy_install?) are all unanswerable.
All of these are not yet implemented. PJE has mentioned that he wants
to work on this in for setuptools 0.7, but development of setuptools
has completely stalled. The distribute package was created because
of this, and development is moving forward again.
Ronald
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