[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Mar 26 04:26:51 CET 2009

Tools like setuptools, zc.buildout, etc. seem great for developers but not very good for distributions. At last year's Pycon I think there was agreement from the Linux distributors that distutils, etc. just wasn't very useful for them.

I think distutils is different here - it not only helps creating distributions (i.e. deployable package files), but also allows direct installation. This, in turn, is used to build the packages for Linux distributions. E.g. debian/rules often contains a "setup.py install" call in its build step (and there is even a CDBS python-distutils.mk fragment)

In that sense, distutils is for Python what make is for C.

Regards, Martin

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