Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.
At 06:31 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
Let me reformulate that:
Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc.
Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough?
Because distutils doesn't have an egg_info command, or SVN-based manifest building (for making sdists).
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:04 PM, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 06:31 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
Let me reformulate that:
Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc.
Why do I need setuptools to do that? Why is not distutils enough?
Because distutils doesn't have an egg_info command, or SVN-based manifest building (for making sdists).
Why the SVN handling should be part of setup.py anyway? Regards, Antonio
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