"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only realistic chance for that to happen is to make the distutils > less arcane and better.
I've been staying out of the discussion, but I'll toss in a hearty +1 in support of making distutils "less arcane and better". In my own experience, I have found that with the packages I usually end up having to ship (source files with related data), sdist is the only distutils command that gets it right. Any of the bdist commands bork the Windows (.msi) Python installation (data files go into site-packages, source goes into python binary path), and I've been too afraid to try any of the linux bdist options (would require a tedious backup and restore of a VM). Because of the frustration that is distutils, I've considered dropping distutils and switching to make + Makefile for all but my py2exe needs, and even not supplying setup.py with any distribution. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
