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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Apr 21 05:38:29 CEST 2006

On Friday 21 April 2006 03:31, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

skip at pobox.com wrote: > Maybe they know something we don't.

oh, please. it's not like people like myself and MAL don't know anything about package distribution... (why is it that people who don't distribute stuff are a lot more im- pressed by a magic tool than people who've spent the last decade distributing stuff ? has it ever occurred to you that we know some- thing that you don't ?)

Er - what? I've been distributing, packaging and installing any number of Python packages for 10 years or more now. Sure, none of them are on the popularity scale of PIL or the mx.* tools, but there's been a lot of them. I also understand distutils pretty well. And I am impressed by some of the features added by setuptools.

As far as "knowing something you don't" - well, yes. You and MAL are undoubtedly extremely knowledgable about distutils. But it should not be a requirement for package authors that they become an expert in the packaging software just to make a release!

I said it before, and I'll say it again: The audience for Python should not only consist of the people on python-dev.

Anthony

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