[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 15:38:47 CEST 2010

2010/10/8 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:

 On 08/10/2010 14:28, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 15:22, Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek at gmail.com>  wrote:

Mmm.. setup.py is gone in D2, and setup.py will be the marker of d1. So, sorry for backing up to this, but isn't it true that many projects do custom stuff in their setup.py that they wouldn't be able to do in setup.cfg? Is the goal really to make that impossible/unnecessary? The goal is to make it unnecessary. My understanding is that it will still be possible to use a setup.py, just unnecessary for the vast majority of cases.

Yes. And to make it possible to keep a d1 setup.py, which works with all installers out there, we decided that d2 would ignore that file, and provide other ways to hook code if necessary.

IOW one project may provide a d1 setup.py and a d2 configuration in the same release.

All the best, Michael

 In Mercurial, for example, we have a fairly large setup.py that helps us deal with many kinds of issues: incomplete Python installations on different platforms, adding packages depending on the platform, do custom stuff to compile gettext files, etc...

Cheers, Dirkjan

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