Hi, There has been a long discussion at Python-Dev mailing list about setuptools and distribute.
setuptools is a Python package for building module and has been widely used in Python world. It's really popular but known as rather 'closed'; Only a few can work on the code and there're bug ports in the tracker. Tarek Ziadé, one of the Python committer thought this is not right and started his setuptools fork project, 'Distribute'. Distribute is compatible with setuptools, just better. The community is active and lots of bugs in setuptools are fixed and it even runs in Python 3.x. A few days ago, Python 2.6.3 was released and the found that it does not work well with setuptools, where as Distribute works file with it. Lots of reports have been submitted to Python list but setuptools hasn't updated still. So, I think it's clear that we need to have Distribute in MacPorts, but how? Gentoo, for example, provide Distribute under the name of 'setuptools'. Is this a right solution for MacPorts? I personally think that's the way, because Distribute is just another name of setuptools with bug fixes and the two cannot be installed at the same time and MacPorts's dependency system does not allow us to do that other than treating both in the same port name. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
