[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/16 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
> > Also, I'd suggest that the fork work on splitting out the components
> > of setuptools - pkg_resources, the distutils extensions, easy_install
> > - so that they can be used independently. That may mean being prepared
> > to have a number of project names, rather than just one...
>
> yes that' the plan, but the first release might be a "bug-free" clone
> of the current
> setuptool 0.6 branch, containing everything, before we start to split
> it, in various
> distributions.
>

After the first release I would
suggest just dropping easy_install, there is already pip that does
instalation better than easy_install (and is supported by buildout I
think). One less piece to maintain and you people can focus more on
the packaging issue and not instalation

-- 
Leonardo Santagada
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