On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Erik Bernoth <erik.bernoth <at> gmail.com> writes: >> distlib is currently still in alpha and will likely be added under the >> hood into setuptools anyway, when it's time. > > Not sure about that - it's meant to supplant setuptools and avoid setup.py > altogether, whereas distutils and setuptools/distribute are pretty much > tied to "python setup.py <command>".
Well, I wouldn't necessarily rule out using it to implement (some portion of) the pkg_resources API, at least on Python 3, as part of the phasing-it-out process, after packaging feature development has ended for setuptools on Python 2, or at least Python <2.6. (The distinction being that distlib seems to be heavily reliant on features that only exist in 2.6+.) Or, to put it somewhat differently, if pkg_resources ever ends up in the stdlib, it should probably happen in the form of a distlib wrapper. ;-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
