[Python-Dev] Raising objections (was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 19 08:26:22 CEST 2006
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Anthony Baxter wrote:
I started refactoring some of the ugliness out of the internals of distutils last year, but was completely stymied by the demand that no existing setup.py scripts be broken.
Instead of trying to fix distutils, maybe it would be better to start afresh with a new package and a new name, then there wouldn't be any backwards-compatibility issues to hold it back.
I'd like to see a different approach taken to the design altogether, something more along the lines of Scons. Maybe it could even be an extension of Scons.
-- Greg
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