[Distutils] setuptools in a cross-compilation packaging environment

[Vincenzo Di Massa]

Alle 18:37, mercoledì 05 ottobre 2005, Phillip J. Eby ha scritto:
> > >>The new setuptools is all nice and easy for end user, but as a package
> > >>maintainer, I'd like to have the option of building a binary package 
> > without all the dependencies.
> > >
> > > In the long run, this should be done by packaging the result of bdist_egg,
> > > and by default doing bdist_rpm will do this now.  In the short term, unless
> > > you're switching to an all-egg distribution, you'll probably want to use
> > > legacy/unmanaged mode.
> >
> >I think you are missing his point here:
> >
> >As package maintainer you *have* to be able to build a distribution
> >package without all the dependency checks being applied - how else
> >would you be able to bootstrap the package in case you have circular
> >dependencies ?
> 
> In legacy/unmanaged mode, setuptools' "install" command behaves the way the 
> standard distutils "install" does today, without creating an egg or 
> searching for dependencies.
> 
I think that eggs are a good addition to python distutils as long as they can be created by 
packagers too. If legacy/unmanaged mode is mandatory to build a package we will never see 
Fedora/Debian/Mandriva and the other big distros shipping eggs.

The ability to install a package without installing its dependencies is crucial to let setuptools 
beeing widely used IMHO.

As I previosly wrote here, another requisite would be very good for packagers and setuptools users too: 
extra egg file installation from setup.py.

If setuptools setup.py need to install an .h file or some /etc/config or some /usr/share/heavy.tar.gz by hand... 
everything more complex than a simple python module will need its distributor to reinvent the weel every time!

I think setuptools is a really good package as is, but I always try to add my 0.0001€ when I can.

Regards
Vincenzo

	

	
		
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