On 2009-10-16, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:46 AM 10/16/2009 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >> >>This is not designed by any objective standard I'd use. > > You are correct; setuptools itself was not particularly > designed. Eggs are, entry points are, a few other odds and ends were > designed, but setuptools itself (and *especially* easy_install) are a > collection of hacks upon hacks, mostly done in a rush to get > something out the door... which as soon as it became popular, locked > into a cycle of not having enough time to do improvements, because > maintenance was taking so much time.
Ah, the perils of success :-) And you've had a lot of success with it. I still remember the more-or-less painful days of having to extract and install everything by hand. And I remember being yealous at perl's "oh, just install x y and z" dependency handling experience. Hurray for having eggs, pypi and friends! Reinout -- Reinout van Rees - [email protected] - http://reinout.vanrees.org Software developer at http://www.thehealthagency.com "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets" _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
