On Oct 15, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Ivan Krstić wrote:That'd be nice. And on that note, for the love of confused masseseverywhere, can we please change the name of easy_install to somethingPython-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.
Even then easy_install support won't be univeral. I still run into packages that don't use distutils, mostly stuff that is or was part of a larger C code base.
Ronald
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________ 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
