Robert Kern wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > >> On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest >>> ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every >>> time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued. >>> >>> Are the above changes OK? >>> >> I'm not sure I see the benefit here -- what does it buy us to insure >> that we always have the latest ez_setup in our tree? >> > > The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they > could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users wouldn't > have to go install another package themselves. > > It's deprecated now. Don't use it. > Furthermore, even if it weren't deprecated, it seems to me a bad idea. (Perhaps that's why it's deprecated.) If a user needs to install setuptools, IMO, the user should know that. For example, on most linux distributions, the right thing to do would be to install that distribution's package of setuptools.
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