Op 17 apr 2011, om 15:26 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven: > On 04/16/2011 03:43 PM, Saul Wold wrote: >> On 04/16/2011 12:46 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: >>> furthermore both distutils and setuptools use the classes in sysroot, so >>> the 'some versions' part of the argument is bogus. >>> >> Koen, >> >> Thanks, I guess missed your comments on this issue, thanks for pointing them >> out. >> >> Richard: Please disregard this patch. > > Fair enough & indeed, using distutils does work for this package. My follow > up question would > be why are there two seemingly identical classes?
Because python people suck at agreeing on buildsystems. > Just looking at a Python package which has > a 'setup.py' file, how can one one which to use and why?? That is an excellent questions! I sadly have no good answer to that :( Figuring out the problem your patch was trying to solve took me about 3 weeks. I started using it as a smoke test to see if it's setuptools or not. Usually you can get away with using distutils everywhere, but sometimes you really need setuptools. My workflow: try setuptools, if that fails: try distutils, if that fails: tell people to stop using that python module regards, Koen _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
