[Distutils] Colour this bikeshed: Name for setuptools fork

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Jul 18 02:05:44 CEST 2009


At 10:05 PM 7/17/2009 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>We will need to carefully look at what we want to do and how we do 
>it after some of the early strong emotional reactions have settled 
>down. Anyone who wants to rewrite setuptools from scratch or thinks 
>"easy_install must die" probably will be very disappointed by the 
>distribute fork.

I'm glad to hear it; that makes it *much* more likely that I will 
simply bless some version of your package as the "official" 
setuptools 0.6 "final" series, and merge it back into my trunk 
whenever I get around to working on the 0.7 versions.  (Which might 
even happen sooner if somebody else is keeping 0.6 fed  and 
watered... thereby decreasing the "work factor" for me.)

(Btw, I'm not sure if you really want to drop entry-points.txt from 
revision control, since ISTM a fresh checkout will not be able to run 
egg_info and rebuild it, unless you also add a hack to 
Distribution.get_command_class() so it (and any other setuptools 
commands it relies upon) can be found.  If it seems to be working 
as-is, my guess is it's because an already-elsewhere-installed 
setuptools version on sys.path is providing the glue by way of *its* 
entry-points.txt.  Try it and see!)



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