Janzert wrote: > Since there seems to be a fair number of negative responses to > setuptools, I just wanted to add a bit of positive counterbalance. I'm > just a random python user that happens to track python-dev a bit, so > take all this with the realization that I probably shouldn't have much > input into anything. ;) > > I've been using python for somewhere around 10 years to write various > random small scripts, gui applications and recently web applications. > For me setuptools is the best thing to happen to python since I've been > using it. I develop and deploy on a seemingly constantly changing mix > of > various flavors of windows and linux. Unlike for others, I love that > once I get setuptools installed I can just use the same commands to get > the things I need. I guess the contrast for me is that python is the > common base that I tend to work from not the underlying OS. > > So I don't know if I'm part of a large number of quiet users or just > happen to be an odd case that works really well with setuptools. I was > disappointed when setuptools didn't make it into 2.5 and I really hope > it or something very much like it can make it into a release in the > near future. Because while setuptools certainly isn't perfect, for me > at least, it is much, much better than nothing at all.
My interpretation of this is that setuptools suffers from the same malaise all flexible apps do (but especially CLI apps it seems): frequent users love the power and high volume of options, infrequent users despise it. If you're installing apps all day, you probably use it a lot more often than library devs like me who use it once every other month (if we're forced to). Robert Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
