-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote: [a long message]
I'm back at Google and *really* busy for another week or so, so I'll have to postpone the rest of this discussion for a while. If other people want to chime in please do so; if this is just a dialog between Phillip and me I might incorrectly assume that nobody besides Phillip really cares.
I care, a lot, enough to have volunteered to help with maintenance / development of setuptols back in September 2007. I think that, warts an all, setuptools is a *huge* improvement over bare distutils for nearly every use case I know about. A lot of setuptools warts are driven by related design problems in the distutils, such as the choice to use imperative / procedural code for everything: a declarative approach, with hooks for cases which actually need them (likely 5% of existing packages) would have made writing tools on top of the framework much simpler. It is ironic that Python is *too powerful* a tool for the tasks normally done by distutils / setuptools: a more restricted, and thererfore introspectable, configuration-driven approoach seems much cleaner. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4e7m+gerLs4ltQ4RAt+hAKDBqIrashlgf8U6XRtfMHjTOaiy4gCeO1Zn UfdjDYIb2P6vDCcUGSjITTo= =JTok -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----