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

Ron Adam rrr at ronadam.com
Fri Oct 22 05:31:11 CEST 2010

On 10/21/2010 07:13 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Eric Smith wrote:

Or for that matter a plain "pysetup". It would be the one that a plain "python" would get you. If 'pysetup' is simply a shell script that invokes 'python -m setup' using the current search path, I guess that's true. On Windows, however, it seems to me that the current 'python setup.py' scheme has advantages, since it lets you simply invoke 'setup.py' and rely on file associations to get you the current python. Supporting either 'python -m setup' or 'pysetup' out of the box would require install-time path hacking of the sort that some people are uncomfortable about.

Terek said this in the first post of this thread...

I just wanted to make sure that once distutils2 is back in the stdlib, it's OK for us to add that script in the distribution.

When it's in the stdlib, the -m option should work just like any other script run from the stdlib.

What path hacking are you thinking of?

Ron

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