2009/10/13 Michael Whapples <[email protected]>: > As it seems that setuptools is not "dead" just possibly a bit slow at being > updated, could I ask what are the aims of the various projects setuptools > and distribute (please try and keep this information restricted to your > project and what it aims to do)?
Distribute is created as a response to setuptools not getting the maintenance it deserves. It provides various bugfixes that has been known in setuptools for a long time but not solved. It also nowadays provides Python 3 support. > I have to say from my view (as a developer of my own packages only using > setuptools/distribute to help package my packages) that it currently looks a > horrible mess, distribute tries to replace setuptools and does it in such a > way that any package which specifically wants setuptools has to use > distribute if another package wants it Distribute is a fork and a complete replacement of setuptools. Hence you can only have one installed in each environment at once. Yes it's a mess. There really is not many reasons for any package to require distribute over setuptools. It's not a package choice, it's a user-choice. > create my own custom code to give the features I currently really use from > setuptools/distribute until this "mess" has been cleaned up. > I know this > idea of going a custom route doesn't really help things If it helps you, it helps. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
