[Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Tue Apr 21 14:00:10 CEST 2009



> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:09:11AM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> I don't actually know what features of setuptools people use.
>

* Dependency specification (install_requires, etc)

* Virtualenv + easy_install for installation

* Entrypoints, both for specifying console_scripts and as an easy way  
to provide plugable hooks in an application

* Specifying new distutils commands as setuptools entrypoints

Ronald
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