On Tuesday,2009-09-08, at 15:46 , Tarek Ziadé wrote:

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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Hello

I am happy to announce the release of Distribute 0.6.1.

Changes:

* zip_ok is now True by default.

I mean False of course ;)

But wait, "zip_ok" is a flag on a package which tells whether this package has something in it that breaks when loaded from a .zip file. My proposal in http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue33 was *not* to make zip_ok default to False, but instead to make always_unzip default to True! always_unzip is a flag in your system which tells whether you want to unzip packages when installing them. I guess I don't precisely *object* to setting zip_ok to default False, at least for now, but I prefer setting always_unzip to default to True. Some people might like to configure their local system to install packages zipped unless that package says that it won't work that way. Regards, Zooko

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Philip Jenvey wrote:

On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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Hello

I am happy to announce the release of Distribute 0.6.1.

Excellent!

I've found one issue: distribute_setup.py uses 2.6's site.USER_SITE.

Right, I'll fix it right away and this can be applied in the distribute_setup.py that is available online (so virtualenv-distribute can be fixed as well) Tarek

-- Philip Jenvey

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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Neal Becker wrote:

Is there some summary of advantages of distribute compared to setuptools?

The changelog entries as found at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute#changes should be a good start. The Distribute 0.6 series is essentially setuptools with more bugs fixed. One process related advantage distribute has over setuptools is, that you can actually contribute patches and code to the project and get those released after a reasonable time. We welcome contributors to the project :-) Hanno