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Fri Oct 22 05:31:11 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-October/104816.html

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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