April 19, 2006
6:11 a.m.
Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
If so, can't we have some kind of versioning system?
We do: "import setuptools". We could perhaps rename it to "import distutils2" if you prefer, but it would mean essentially the same thing. :)
I believe the naming is important, though. I'd rather it be called distutils2, or "from distutils.core import setup2" or something like that. setuptools *is* a new version of distutils, so it shouldn't have a different name. Then, about new commands. Why should I need to do "import distutils2" to do, eg, "setup.py develop"? This doesn't break backward compatibility. Giovanni Bajo