[Distutils] Some negative press for easy_install
Gerhard Häring
gh at ghaering.de
Thu Feb 9 17:35:18 CET 2006
Ben Bangert wrote:
> I didn't have a non-setuptools build mainly because I
> couldn't see how to setup a setup.py file in such a way that I could
> make both versions at once. I'm assuming I'd need two setup.py's and
> to swap them in the build depending on if it was a setuptools build
> or not. [...]
See http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite/changeset/227
I just changed pyqlite's build process so that you can build without
setuptools again.
setup.py is the traditional distutils script.
extended_setup.py is the one that imports everything from setup.py and
adds additional setuptools features.
HTH,
-- Gerhard
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