[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5. (original) (raw)

Baptiste Carvello baptiste13 at altern.org
Fri Apr 21 01🔞31 CEST 2006

Hello,

just one more datapoint to help Phillip change his mind on the default install behavior and the monkeypatching: this is actually hurting adoption of setuptools.

example: the matplotlib folks wanted to add optional setuptool support, but this is impossible because simply importing setuptools has too much side-effects. So instead, they ask the setuptool users to use python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" install That's just too bad, and much more confusing than setup.py install_egg !

Oh, and don't get me wrong, I love eggs. They are great for many use cases, even for a Debian user! From the "user" point of view, they definitely belong in the stdlib, the sooner, the better. They just need a little bit more polishing.

Phillip, thank you a lot for making this happen :-) I feel that the hostility is undeserved.

Baptiste

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