On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28:22PM -0700, Vinzent Steinberg wrote: > Could you be please more concrete and tell what "interesting" > consequences are to be expected?
For instance you can no longer override the import of a module by installation a newer version of it... unless you use setuptools. Users also get confused as to what is imported, and this results in strange bug reports. > Do you think distutils is better than setuptools? It is orthogonal. These two tools attempt to solve two different problems: installation and packaging. > I want it to work like every good Windows installer. It should remove > old files and not break installations. I don't know if it does this for windows. It certainly does not do this for Linux. > Guido for example apparently does not agree with you. :) (http:// > mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063964.html) That's old news. There has been quite a flame at Pycon this year (2008) about setuptools. I do not have the impression Guido is terribly satisfied with the state of the project. The problem is that it is the only project trying to tackle this challenge. Gaël --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
