May 29, 2005
8:02 p.m.
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 05:17 PM 5/29/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
Looking at some of the packages I'm interested in, there's a couple ones that don't use distutils. Of course, fixing this is best, but I'm wondering if those can be installed as well. Typically you can install these packages just by copying them into place.
Hm. They're going to get a 0.0.0 version number. :(
Eh, crappy metadata is inevitable, and it's an incentive to create a proper distutil script. Having something that works, even if sub-optimal, is good enough for me. -- Ian Bicking / ianb@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org