Greg Ewing wrote: > Ivan Krstić wrote: > >> That'd be nice. And on that note, for the love of confused masses >> everywhere, can we please change the name of easy_install to something >> Python-specific, such as 'egg' or 'py_install'? > > I don't think that easy_install support is going to > become universal until its functionality is folded > into distutils and it becomes part of the standard > distribution. Expecting everyone to learn about and > support a particular 3rd party addition is just not > realistic.
The Python 3 timeframe should be reasonably wide to allow setuptools and distutils becoming one and being integrated in the stdlib. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
