On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
On 2009-10-16, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 10:46 AM 10/16/2009 -0400, sstein...@gmail.com 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!
Here's to catching up with Perl and Ruby and maybe even passing them,
finally.
S
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