Distutils is not good enough for the vast majority of people. Even for what it does, it does not do it well. It is a library that is user hostile and buggy. It was a fine first revision of packaging, but the Python community needs something better.
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:31 AM, a.cava...@cavallinux.eu wrote: > > +1 > Distutils is good enough: it could be better but for what is required > (essentially copying files and creating packages installers) is fine. The only > corner case is an absolute pain in the neck is in the cross compile scenario. > > Currently I don't have *any* need for "auto" tools (setuptools and > descendants). > As an example I always advice to avoid like a plague anything that depends on > setuptools... with all the due respect I think is the poor's developer > attempt to > play the sys admin game. > > Even virtual env is a poor work around on the python interpreter not being > relocatable (as in a portable app fashion). > > thanks > > > On Tue 13/11/12 16:10, "Ronald Oussoren" ronaldousso...@mac.com > (mailto:ronaldousso...@mac.com) wrote: > > > > On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail > > .com> wrote: > > > > > I want to remove distutils from the standard > > library. > > Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages. It > > could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more useable, > > although patches for that would run into the self-imposed freeze of > > distutils development. > > Ronald > > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > > (mailto:distutils-...@python.org) > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > (mailto:distutils-...@python.org) > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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