Chris Withers wrote: > > From that I infer that most people use tools like buildout or pip to > manage installation, even on Windows.
I am skeptical about this claim because up to recently, virtualenv did not even work correctly for windows when you needed to build a C extension (bug which has been fixed since then), and setuptools from 2 weeks ago could not even produce workable entry points for scripts on 64 bits windows (fixed in last setuptools 0.6.9c11). In the corporate world, msi rules (because of group policy and all), and generally, wininst are much more similar to what people expect on windows. I think it is also important to keep in mind that not everybody use the same workflow - I myself build a lot of non trivial python softwares on many platforms, and the whole virtualenv/buildout/pip workflows is very foreign to me, and do not fit at all how I want to build and deploy things. Data-free generalization on how people do things should be avoided for those discussions, and we should focus on the requirements and use-cases. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
