<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Sorry all -- on vacation and only semi-online for a while...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">I'd managed to miss Flit's creation, so I simply wasn't aware of it.<br></p></span>
<p dir="ltr">Now that I've had a chance to remedy that oversight, yes, flit sounds exactly like what I meant, so it could be worth recommending it ahead of a full distutils/setuptools based setup.py for simple projects.</p></blockquote><div>neither did I - and it does look intriguing, though not (yet) what I had in mind. "my" idea of setuptool-lite would be a drop-in replacement for the parts of setuptools that we want to continue to support. i.e. not nearly as crippled as flit.</div><div><br></div><div>That being said, *I* don't have any use for pkg_resources, so maybe flit is pretty close :-)</div><div><br></div><div>but sdists are key.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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