At 11:28 AM 5/22/2011 -0700, chiggsy wrote:
Are people still using setuptools?
Yes. Over the last 9 hours alone, the 0.6 development snapshot version (0.6c12dev_r88795) was downloaded from over 100 unique IPs.
They most likely represent people manually upgrading to the latest version, since the user agents are mostly older setuptools versions, like 0.6c5, 0.6c9 and 0.6c11.
I thought that distribute was the new way forward...?
Not really. Unless you're using Python 3, or you want different default options from setuptools, there's little advantage to using distribute. (It also includes bugs that setuptools does not.)
In addition, the announced direction of distribute is that they're replacing it with the new "packaging" project, formerly known as distutils2.
Which means, again, that outside of Python 3, there's no compelling reason to switch; you might as well wait for "packaging" to roll around.
So, all the hype was pretty much just that: hype and FUD-slinging. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
