[Distutils] EasyInstall --> distutils command + setuptools enhancements?

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Wed Jun 8 22:24:55 CEST 2005


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> We could solve that a little better by creating an 'ez_boot' module or 
> some such, for people to use in their setup scripts.  You'd just do 
> "import ez_boot" in your setup script before trying to import 
> setuptools, and it would do the job of stuff like:

So ez_boot.py would get distributed alongside setup.py?  That seems like 
a good idea.  It would also be a sneak way to get people to install 
pkg_resources et al ;)

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