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December 2009

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70 packages in total use setuptools' "extras" feature
by Sridhar Ratnakumar Dec. 3, 2009

Dec. 3, 2009

I thought this list might be of interest to the people here. Surprisingly not many packages rely on (not declare) setuptools' "extras" feature [bit.ly/setuptools-extras]. http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/154703/ -srid

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Re: [Distutils] Bundling pkg_resources
by P.J. Eby Dec. 1, 2009

Dec. 1, 2009

At 07:16 PM 11/30/2009 +0200, cool-RR wrote: >Well, that sort of sucks. And this is my motivation for bundling the >`pkg_resources` from Distribute. The last thing I want is having my >software fail for my users because of setuptools while I have >Distribute installed locally and can't see the bug on my computer. That's *really* unlikely. Setuptools' runtime functionality (i.e., pkg_resources) has an extremely low bug count. There have actually been more new pkg_resources bugs in Distribute's version of it (due to their changes) than there are outstanding reported bugs in the original pkg_resources.

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