Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> writes: > The underlaying question is: Imangine you are a newcomer.
A newcomer is in a tough position when it comes to packaging and distributing Python code, especially the command-line programs. There has been significant progress on this in recent years. The Setuptools third-party library is a lot saner, the inclusion of ‘pip’ in standard installs makes it much broader in scope. But *not* in the standard library today, it's true. > You need a guide like 'if unsure do x'. With other words: What is the > sane default choice? There isn't a good answer to that question, today. The best answer today is: Read the guides from the Python Packaging Authority, and stay abreast of developments because this continues to change. Maybe eventually the ongoing work of the PyPA will be settled enough that it can update the standard library Distutils. But not today. -- \ “Nothing is more sacred than the facts.” —Sam Harris, _The End | `\ of Faith_, 2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
