[Python-Dev] setuptools in the stdlib ( r45510 - python/trunk/Lib/pkgutil.py python/trunk/Lib/pydoc.py) (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Apr 19 08:38:29 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

I was surprised that MAL didn't comment then, actually, and mistakenly thought it meant that our last discussion on the distutils-sig (and my attempts to deal with the problems) had been successful. Between that and MvL's mild response to the explicit discussion of supporting setuptools, I thought their votes had effectively moved from -1 to -0. Off-list discussion with Fredrik suggested that he too had shifted from -1 to -0,

I'm +1 on adding stuff to distutils (and other install tools) to make it easier for setuptools (and other install tools) to make a good job.

I'm -1 on adding tools to the core that changes the structure of an installed Python system, without a full PEP process. If nobody can point to (or produce) a technical document that, in full detail, describes the mechanisms used by setuptools, including what files it creates, what the files contain, how they are used during import, how non-setuptools code can manipulate (or at least in- spect) the data, etc, setuptools should not go into 2.5.

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