On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:22, Walter Dörwald wrote:
If I'm not calling shared libraries from Python I can ignore ctypes. If I'm not doing XML, I can ignore elementtree. If I'm not doing SQL I can ignore pysqlite and if I'm not interested in profiling I can ignore cProfile. But setuptools will potentially affect anyone that uses third-party modules/packages.
Sure. It might mean people can automatically install something like TurboGears and all it's dependencies, without stuffing their existing required versions (thanks to eggs) and without having to fetch 16 different packages. Oh, the horror! <wink>
And ctypes, elementtree and pysqlite are mature packages. setuptools isn't even finished yet.
Neither is distutils. setuptools at least is likely to be "finished", whatever that means.
Wouldn't I need at least have to change "from distutils.core import setup" to "from setuptools import setup"? Or to something like:
Nope, only if you want to use the new, nicer functionality. If you want to stick with the status quo, you're quite welcome to. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.