On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I am not against setuptools per se, only I want sympy to work with the traditional tools, which currently is distutils. My own experience with projects using setuptools is that it is very fragile, but if someone is interested in supporting setuptools, let's do it (under the assumption that the distutils way will still just work). Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
