[Distutils] Bundling Distribute
Tarek Ziadé
ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 22:27:24 CET 2009
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Ram Rachum <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
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> I'll be using it my setup.py, and I've also heard about pkg_resources and I'll
> want to use that. And maybe there will be more interesting things in Distribute
> that I'll want to use. What do you suggest I should do?
There's a trick to use it without installing it :
- add the distribute_setup.py script besides your setup.py script
- call the use_setuptools API in setup.py, so distribute gets
downloaded then added in the path
(see the documentation for that)
Although I think the best practice is to ask your users to install
Distribute explicitely, because
using Distribute under the hood implies that everytime someone runs
your setup.py script,
it will behave specifically. (and not like Distutils is supposed to behave)
For example, when "install" is called, it will install the
distribution following its own standard.
We are pushing in favor of an unified installation standard for all
tools (read PEP 376), and until this goal is
reached, I am now also suggesting people not to use the use_setuptools
trick, so the end-user knows what
is going on.
Tarek
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