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

[Lennart Regebro]

2009/8/6 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> 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 <distribute>.

I'm confused. You said that if a project is still on setuptools it
will overwrite distribute. Now you said it wouldn't.

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