Re: [Distutils] Setuptools 0.7 final available for download
Hi Paul. From: Paul Moore [mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 02 June, 2013 13:13 On 2 June 2013 16:42, Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com <mailto:jaraco@jaraco.com> > wrote: For convenience, I've also added experimental .msi installers for Windows for Python 3.3 and Python 2.7. Work may continue on these in the future, but as the documentation states, the recommended installation procedure is to use ez_setup.py. Please consider using wheel instead of msi. Or at least bdist_wininst. The msi format is opaque and cannot be converted to other formats. OTOH, setuptools is pure Python, so having binaries is a relative non-issue. Thanks. I need to learn wheel. I haven't yet done that. The reason I chose msi is because it is a binary distribution format that works on 64-bit Python (there still exists a bug in distutils where installers don't detect 64-bit python installations because the installer executable is 32-bit). The recommended installation technique on all platforms, much like Distribute, is to do a source install. One point - can I assume that the new version is written to run unchanged on all supported Python versions (2 and 3) so that it is possible to build a wheel using *any* version of Python and use it unchanged on any other? (I ask because I'd like to look at integrating setuptools 0.7 into virtualenv). Currently, Python 3 support is still using the same technique employed by distribute - namely, running 2to3 during install. So I don't believe it can be used unchanged on any Python version. Having a single code base for Python 2.4-3.3 is the top feature I want to develop as soon as the merge is complete and successfully adopted.
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