[Python-Dev] a new setuptools release? (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Oct 7 21:38:20 CEST 2009

P.J. Eby wrote:

At 07:27 PM 10/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Having more competition will also help, e.g. ActiveState's PyPM looks promising (provided they choose to open-source it) and then there's pip. Note that both PyPM and pip use setuptools as an important piece of their implementation (as does buildout), so they are technically the competition of easyinstall, rather than setuptools per se. IOW, putting setuptools in the stdlib wouldn't be declaring a victor in the installation tools competition, it'd simply be providing infrastructure for (present and future) tools to build on.

I'd like to see PEP 370 (user site-packages folders) compatibility as a pre-condition of moving Distribute (or components of it) into the standard library.

There are some issues around PEP 370 for alternative implementations that I'd like to address as a compatibility fix for Python 2.6 as well. :-)

Michael

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