Ronald Oussoren schrieb: >> And indeed, distutils already has support for that: >> distutils.dep_util offers a couple of routines that >> do time-stamp checking. > > This points to at least part of the problem: there is very little useful > documentation on how to extend, or even use, distutils.
Thats certainly the case, and indeed a problem (I readily admit there are many problems with distutils). These problems can only be fixed through people contributing documentation, though. This *specific* problem certainly cannot be resolved by replacing the package with something else, unless that something else has already excellent documentation to start with (which it likely doesn't). I believe that the whole issue of packaging and deployment is indeed one of the biggest challenges in IT engineering, so it is no surprise that the technology attempting to deal with it is complex, incomplete, and non-intuitive. And that statement is IMO not only true about distutils, but also about its direct competitors, and about the more-remote relatives (such as dpkg, rpm, msi, OSX packages, ...) Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
