[Distutils] What's missing from easy_install

[David Cournapeau]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 1. easy_remove!
>>>
>>> 2. Various utilities to provide query package management.
>>>   - easy_install --list (list files installed)
>>>       
>>    Implementing is easier said than done, and I think you got that
>> idea from the lack of response from folks...
>>     
>
> I don't see why this should be all that difficult to implement.
>   

In part because different people want different things from the
packaging, with often conflicting goals. Those conflicts increase pretty
quickly when you take into account different platforms/type of
development (desktop apps vs "libraries" vs webapp vs etc...). The
"cross-platformness" alone, with the underlying philosophical
differences on how to do deployment  (bundling vs backward compatible
dependencies, etc...) is quite hard to manage.

David