[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5. (original) (raw)
Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 19:44:15 CEST 2006
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On 4/21/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 12:51 PM 4/21/2006 -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > As for --install-data > > ... one of the pre-existing distutils extensions ...
> Use of a third-party extension (that isn't mentioned > in the docs [2.3]) is hardly intuitive.
> If it is really required, that is far more >intrusive than the stdlib changes setuptools makes.
[Request for clarification]
If I were developing under 2.3, having to install a 3rd-party tool to make distutils work is no better than installing setuptools, even with its changes to the stdlib -- and considerably worse, since setuptools is at least a blessed extension.
Even if I'm developing mostly with 2.5, I'm reluctant to require that my users install more than they need to. I don't like that setuptools is needed, and changes their system defaults -- but that is still better than doing the same thing with a random third-party extension.
-jJ
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