Andreas Kostyrka wrote:

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Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 15:01 -0500 schrieb Phil Christensen:

Well, how buggy it is, is open to discussion. Clearly distutils becames quite nicer when upgraded to setuptools. But having no packaging

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is not a solution either. I have no idea how long you've been doing Python but I do remember the times when most C language modules came without any build support (figure out the compiler call yourself, and enjoy), or Makefile fragements at best.

So despite all potentially problematic aspects of distutils/setuptools/pypi, it's a vast improvement. (Compare pypi to

Steve Holden wrote: format the

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Vault of Parnassus and tell me that it is not an improvement)

It's not an improvement.

See how easy lying is? ;-)

PLEASE, folks, let this (sub)thread die -- it's about as OT as it gets! Steve W.