[Python-Dev] setuptools in the stdlib (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Wed Apr 19 08:11:43 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

If so, can't we have some kind of versioning system? We do: "import setuptools". We could perhaps rename it to "import distutils2" if you prefer, but it would mean essentially the same thing. :)

I believe the naming is important, though. I'd rather it be called distutils2, or "from distutils.core import setup2" or something like that. setuptools is a new version of distutils, so it shouldn't have a different name.

Then, about new commands. Why should I need to do "import distutils2" to do, eg, "setup.py develop"? This doesn't break backward compatibility.

Giovanni Bajo

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