On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: [..] > So, without some other intervention, users will continue to follow the > instructions with those hundreds of packages (or on those thousands of > websites) and manually or automatically try to install setuptools.
I think this will be in the hands of the projects developers : if they start to use Distribute, they will start to document the way to install and use it, and the word will spread eventually. [..] > Ultimately, to successfully migrate to Distribute is going to require a > good understanding of the use cases for easy_install (primarily those of > end users) and for the setuptools API (those of package developers). > Those use cases should be documented somehow, either in the roadmap or a > reference elsewhere. This is especially true if your intentions are to > deprecate the easy_install command in Distribute 0.7 and if APIs are > going to change for package developers. As Antoine points out, pip is > not equivalent to easy_install. BTW, keep in mind that today people > also use easy_install to manage the installation of packages that do not > use setuptools. The choice to deprecate easy_install in 0.7 is done because the Pip project is not far to meet all uses cases easy_install users have, and we're betting on the fact that Pip is active and will be much more advanced that what we could do with a 'new' refactored easy_install by the time 0.7 is ready. meaning : why doing this work twice ? > Thanks again for your hard work on this, Tarek! Thanks for the advices Tarek _______________________________________________ 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
