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 easy_install, 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 > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog
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