On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:02, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
distutils is not a `package management` tool, because it doesn't know anything even about installed packages
With that definition, there are no packaga management tools for Python. So it's going to be pretty hard to ship one with 2.7.
`pip` and `distribute` are unknown for a vast majority of Python users, so if you have a perspective replacement for `easy_install` - it can be said in bootstrap package message. There is no problem with packages that require `setuptools` either - they will require `setuptools` as dependency anyway.
For now there are two questions: 1. Are they stable enough for the replacement of user command line `easy_install` tool?
Yes. But that's the wrong question. The correct question is: Are they stable enough to be included in standard library. And the answer is "no".
2. Which one is the recommended?
Both. -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.com/ +33 661 58 14 64