Distutils is not good enough for the vast majority of people. Even for what it does, it does not do it well. It is a library that is user hostile and buggy. It was a fine first revision of packaging, but the Python community needs something better. On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:31 AM, a.cavallo@cavallinux.eu wrote:
+1 Distutils is good enough: it could be better but for what is required (essentially copying files and creating packages installers) is fine. The only corner case is an absolute pain in the neck is in the cross compile scenario.
Currently I don't have *any* need for "auto" tools (setuptools and descendants). As an example I always advice to avoid like a plague anything that depends on setuptools... with all the due respect I think is the poor's developer attempt to play the sys admin game.
Even virtual env is a poor work around on the python interpreter not being relocatable (as in a portable app fashion).
thanks
On Tue 13/11/12 16:10, "Ronald Oussoren" ronaldoussoren@mac.com (mailto:ronaldoussoren@mac.com) wrote:
On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth
wrote: I want to remove distutils from the standard library. Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages. It could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more useable, although patches for that would run into the self-imposed freeze of distutils development. Ronald
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