On 13/10/2009, at 7:16, Michael Whapples <[email protected]> wrote:
< lots of rational stuff >
+10
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Hello,
I realise I may be starting something I would prefer not to (looking
at some of the replies of the announcement of setuptools 0.6c10), so
I would like to ask that this tries to stay as a factual thing
rather than a "having a go at the other".
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)? It
would be nice to have this information as at the moment its a bit
unclear what either really are trying to offer over the other. I
would like to be able to make a fully informed choice on why use one
over the other, I feel at the moment this isn't possible.
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, so not allowing the one which specifically wants
setuptools to get the latest setuptools (eg. now or soon it will be
setuptools 0.6c10). It is tempting for me to use distutils and
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, but my main concern is my package and if no solution
currently can satisfy me it is suitable then unfortunately custom
solutions may be the best option for me (I won't support a mess).
Michael Whapples
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