On Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Most people use distutils / packaging as > an application, not a library. If you provide only a subset of > the necessary features, people won't use packaging.
Not that I think current usage patterns matter since moving from setup.py to a static file, but that's not really true. The wide proliferation of setuptools shows pretty clearly that people are fine using distutils as a library. Even beyond that the popularity of pip shows that as well since very few people even directly interact with setup.py at all except to create the distributions.
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