At 12:58 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: >A lot of setuptools warts are driven by related design problems in the >distutils, such as the choice to use imperative / procedural code for >everything: a declarative approach, with hooks for cases which actually >need them (likely 5% of existing packages) would have made writing tools >on top of the framework much simpler. It is ironic that Python is *too >powerful* a tool for the tasks normally done by distutils / setuptools: > a more restricted, and thererfore introspectable, configuration-driven >approoach seems much cleaner.
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