On Wed, Aug 06, 2008, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >Previously Jean Jordaan wrote: >> Hi there >> >> If you don't feel like reading a bit of a rant, please skip this. >> >> Also, please don't take the curmudgeonly tone amiss. I appreciate XTM >> very much. I'm just being a squeaky wheel so that in future it may get >> even more happy users. > >This may sound negative, but..
I have often thought of saying these exact things. >as you already said nothing in your rant is really relevant here, and >repeating it will not accomplish much. setuptools, which is known to be >awful in various ways, is the only packaging and distribution system we >have for python. It has its own mailinglist which is also use for >zc.buildout development: distutils-sig on python.org. If you want to >vent you should do that there. What's wrong with distutils? It's worked for years, easily works with package installs (e.g. building RPMs), and does what one expects. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 A perpetual and unlimited debt represents deficit spending as a social principle. It means a progressive redistribution of wealth by will of government until there is no more fat to divide; after that comes a level rationing of the national income. It means in the end the cheapening of money and then inflation, whereby the middle class is economically murdered in its sleep. In the arsenal of revolution the perfect weapon is inflation. -- Garet Garrett, The Revolution Was _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
