[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 2 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jan 12 22:56:55 CET 2010

Maybe not, but the Distribute feature is there because IMO the distutils feature by itself isn't particularily useful. You need to write your own distutils extensions, in practice, and they are not trivial.

I wouldn't say that. My Django port works with bare distutils (as does Django itself), and it works fine.

That distribute had to redo it is only because setuptools replaces the build_py command, as does the 2to3 support in distutils. So only if you have a different build_py already, you can't use what is in distutils.

Regards, Martin

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