[Python-Dev] Raising objections (was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Apr 19 17:31:05 CEST 2006

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 02:06 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> >I agree. My one stupid nit is that I don't like the name >'easyinstall'. I wish a better, non-underscored word could be found.

The long term plan is for a tool called "nest" to be offered, which will offer a command-line interface similar to that of the "yum" package manager, with commands to list, uninstall, upgrade, and perform other management functions on installed packages. It's not likely to be available in time for the Python 2.5, release, but when it is available you'll just "python -m easyinstall --upgrade setuptools" to get it. :)

Cool. Sticking with the metaphor, where's the 'hatch' command and what would it do? :)

-Barry

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