On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:29:02 +0100, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > David Lyon wrote: >> So I will build an option in to check on the net for an updated >> version before starting. > > That won't fly.
but it will most definitely work... and it will be backwards compatable with older python installations. > A significant number of people will be installing in situations where > setup.py will have no access to the internet. Of course. So an update check won't make it through. > Why is it that you basically want to put an entire module's worth of > code inside every single package's setup.py? Because it is easy. Let me put it another way - how does a 'normal-user' update distutils in the stdlib? > Take something like errorhandler: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/errorhandler > > The actual code of the package is only about 30 lines long. > > Having to include a 500 line setup.py just so I can include metadata in > the packages seem pretty insane ;-) Well, 500 lines is just this week. Maybe by next week it will be even more. If the file is 100kb long, I don't think a user would care. I don't think users in the real world will look at the file.. and think "wow - that's 100k.. we can't possibly run that program on our new quad core 3ghz machine with 4GB ram and 1TB disk space. To me, I think it will be the other way around.. I think they'll think "here's a crunchy setup.py.. lets run that". Same as always. Business as usual. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
