[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5. (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Apr 20 10🔞32 CEST 2006


Anthony Baxter wrote:

I also don't think it will be the "death" of distutils. I think that over time the two pieces of code will become closer together - hopefully for Python 3.0 we can formally merge the two.

I was hoping that for Python 3.0, we could get around to unkludge the sys.path/meta_path/path_hooks/path_importer_cache big ball of hacks, possibly by replacing sys.path with something a bit more intelligent than a plain list.



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