[Distutils] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

[Tres Seaver]

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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> [a long message]
> 
> I'm back at Google and *really* busy for another week or so, so I'll
> have to postpone the rest of this discussion for a while. If other
> people want to chime in please do so; if this is just a dialog between
> Phillip and me I might incorrectly assume that nobody besides Phillip
> really cares.

I care, a lot, enough to have volunteered to help with maintenance /
development of setuptols back in September 2007.  I think that, warts an
all, setuptools is a *huge* improvement over bare distutils for nearly
every use case I know about.

A lot of setuptools warts are driven by related design problems in the
distutils, such as the choice to use imperative / procedural code for
everything:  a declarative approach, with hooks for cases which actually
need them (likely 5% of existing packages) would have made writing tools
on top of the framework much simpler.  It is ironic that Python is *too
powerful* a tool for the tasks normally done by distutils / setuptools:
 a more restricted, and thererfore introspectable, configuration-driven
approoach seems much cleaner.


Tres.
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