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 wrote:

On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail
.com> 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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