[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jun 21 17:10:21 CEST 2012

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:02:58 -0300 "Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn" <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

Fortunately, this issue is fixable! I opened a bug report and I and a others have provided patches that makes setuptools stop doing this behavior. This makes the above documentation true again. The negative impact on features or backwards-compatibility doesn't seem to be great. http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53 Philip J. Eby provisionally approved of one of the patches, except for some specific requirement that I didn't really understand how to fix and that now I don't exactly remember: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-January/010880.html

These days, I think you should really target distribute, not setuptools.

Regards

Antoine.

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