Hi Lennart, Sorry for my late posting... I'm working on a gui python package manager on sourceforge...
Executive summary: I have catch 22 problems in finishing the setuptools port to Python 3, and unless somebody can come up with alternatives, I may rip out setuptools dependency on itself completely, and only depend on distutils.
... It's not easy I agree... I am a GUI junky myself... :-) I don't use chainsaw (code) unless i need to I'm trying out all the installers on one machine... einstaller won't install because I already installed setuptools.... ez_installer won't de-install setuptools... pip doesn't want to go on either... I will figure it out... I am sympathising saying this package stuff is hard going....
I don't have a good solution to this, unless we can drop setuptools dependency on setuptools completely, and just use plain distutils for installing and testing setuptools. This will mean no more setuptools source eggs, but then I don't see the purpose of those, really. Arguments for not doing this and alternative solutions are highly welcome.
:-) me too