[Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

[Ben Finney]

Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> writes:

> Roughly in order of most important to least important:

My response is essentially a subset of Zooko's.

> 1.  a formal, machine-readable way to specify our dependencies
[…]

> 2.  automatic installation of dependencies
[…]

> 3. Obviously having even one "dependency" in your installation
> instructions is too many, so we try to provide [system packages] […]
> Many of the tools that produce these other formats rely on the
> above-mentioned feature #1 and/or feature #2.
[…]

> 7.  python setup.py sdist upload register

All of the above.

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Ben Finney