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

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Lennart Regebro<regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

no, it will be faked. meaning that just the PKG-INFO will be presented,
thus detected by pkg_resources. But at the end the setuptools *package*,
the pkg_resources.py and site.py files will be the one installed by setuptools.

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

Not sure what you mean here.

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