[Distutils] Prototype setuptools-specific PyPI index.

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Jul 23 22:48:40 CEST 2007


At 04:05 PM 7/23/2007 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
>It doesn't even make sense to *use* easy_install if you are
>already in the unpacked source distribution;  the intersection of the
>two sets of use cases is empty.

Not true, actually.  "setup.py install" doesn't give you the same 
flexibility of options as "easy_install .", since the latter lets you 
specify options like whether or not to unzip the resulting package, 
and whether to include dependencies or not.



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