Re: [Distutils] setuptools in 2.5?

Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

I do think it's quite possible that quite a lot of setuptools could reasonably be backported to the distutils, including some of its command conveniences (aliases, configuration-saving, distribution rotation, etc.), utility functions (e.g. find_packages), and so on. The parts that are both stable and not specific to eggs, in other words, as these are less likely to be controversial. :)

That'd be great to do. I think also of fixes to MANIFEST, understanding of cvs/svn metafiles, etc. Are you really planning to have those integrated into distutils for 2.5? Giovanni Bajo