[Python-Dev] PEP 395: Module Aliasing

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Sat Mar 5 13:49:06 CET 2011


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of them can be annoying as hell when dealing with a system that also
> installs multiple versions of a module.  But one could argue that's the
> fault of setuptools' version handling rather than the entry-points
> handling.

Agreed; I don't use setuptools to manage versions of packages.  I've
found zc.buildout much nicer to work with, and entirely predictable
when applied properly.


  -Fred

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