March 20, 2008
8:07 a.m.
At 12:58 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
A lot of setuptools warts are driven by related design problems in the distutils, such as the choice to use imperative / procedural code for everything: a declarative approach, with hooks for cases which actually need them (likely 5% of existing packages) would have made writing tools on top of the framework much simpler. It is ironic that Python is *too powerful* a tool for the tasks normally done by distutils / setuptools: a more restricted, and thererfore introspectable, configuration-driven approoach seems much cleaner.
+1