[Distutils] Distribute and zc.buildout + bootstraping file names + release/branches roadmap

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 09:24:34 CEST 2009


2009/8/6 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> Yes it's needed. Even if some people switch to Distribute in their
> projects, as soon as you install
> a project that is still on Setuptools, it will overwrite Distribute
> files with no warning.

But wait... if you install distribute, and you then install a project
that depends on setuptools, you say it will be installed.

But... isn't it distribute doing that installation? In that case, we
could just not install setuptools? :-)

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