Re: [Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.
At 06:02 PM 4/20/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 17:07, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
I still don't understand why you can't have a setup3.py that uses only distutils, in order to run the build2to3 on. Am I missing something?
Well, the question then becomes why not just depends on distutils all the way? With a setup3.py that does this, most of the work for removing this self-dependency is done.
python3 setup3.py build_2to3 cd wherevertheoutputgoes python3 setup.py test (or whatever)
Well, first of all the distutils build command doesn't include the files needed, such as setup.py, and also it doesn't copy the txt files that is the doctests. So it would need an extended version of build_py_2to3 that does copy these files. And instead of doing "cd wherever, python2 setup.py test", we can just as well just do a custom command that runs the custom build_py_2to3 and runs the tests from there too.
So in fact, what you are suggesting here is almost exactly what I'm suggesting, except that I don't see the point in confusing and complicating things by keeping the old setup.py.
Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 18:17, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc.
You really need to stop assuming everybody else here understands the issues as well as you do, because we don't. Or well, I don't, anyway. I don't understand a word in your answer, it makes no sense to me whatsoever, Try answering like I'm a moron, because I probably am.
Because that's the one that generates the metadata setuptools needs to run, test itself, etc.
No, setup3.py does that. Why do I need setup.py? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64
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? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64
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