On Friday 21 April 2006 03:31, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe they know something we don't. > > oh, please. it's not like people like myself and MAL don't know > anything about package distribution... > > (why is it that people who *don't* distribute stuff are a lot more > im- pressed by a magic tool than people who've spent the last > decade distributing stuff ? has it ever occurred to you that we > know some- thing that you don't ?)
Er - what? I've been distributing, packaging and installing any number of Python packages for 10 years or more now. Sure, none of them are on the popularity scale of PIL or the mx.* tools, but there's been a lot of them. I also understand distutils pretty well. And I _am_ impressed by some of the features added by setuptools. As far as "knowing something you don't" - well, yes. You and MAL are undoubtedly extremely knowledgable about distutils. But it should not be a requirement for package authors that they become an expert in the packaging software just to make a release! I said it before, and I'll say it again: The audience for Python should not only consist of the people on python-dev. Anthony _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
