On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Bill Janssen wrote:
Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote:
Yes, I could see that. setuptools plays all kinds of games to achieve
its ends, some of them broken. Thank heaven for distutils2/packaging.
What ? another 'dist' thing ?
So that leaves us with distutils 1, 2, setuptools and distribute. My informa=
tion may be incomplete, out of date or incorrect, of course :-)
Yes, after all, an hour has gone by :-).
Distutils2 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2) is the Python 2.x
name for the new Python 3 packaging system, called, imaginatively
enough, "packaging". It replaces "distutils" in Python 3.3. So the
"correct" thing to do is to use "distutils2" for Python 2.x-3.2, and
"packaging" thereafter; the data files and operation should be the same
for both. "setup.py" is gone; long live "setup.cfg". "easy_install" is
gone; long live "pysetup run".
What about 'distribute', the python 3.x 'setuptools' replacement that forked
off of it ?
Can distutils2 build a Library correctly (thus relieving us of setuptools
requirement for shared mode) ?
Andi..
