[Distutils] Package install failures in 2.6.3 - setuptools vs Distribute

[Alex Grönholm]

Bill Janssen kirjoitti:
> Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm struggling to articulate something here.  When the maintainer of
>> the stable branch of a platform that I rely on says "The fact that
>> upgrading to our recent stable release will break this critical
>> functionality is so-and-so's fault, not ours." this reduces my
>> confidence in that maintainer.  Not because he's wrong!  Maybe it
>> *is* so-and-so's fault.  But what I'm looking for in the maintainer
>> of a stable platform is someone who says "Maybe this wasn't our
>> fault, but here are the steps we're taking to get you back on your
>> feet as soon as possible.".
>>     
>
> Zooko, I've struggled with this over the last year, in integrating a
> dozen fairly complicated third-party Python extensions for my system.
>
> I've come to the conclusion that the problem is setuptools, and I'm
> trying hard to remove it entirely from my system.
>
> I have no problem with the .egg format or the basic idea, or even the
> implementation, which I think is pretty nice.  It's the structure of the
> setuptools project that gives me pause.  There seems to be one
> developer, and he seems to be too busy to fix the well-known bugs (like
> having easy_install ruin the sys.path settings by putting stuff on it in
> the wrong place -- is that one fixed yet?).
>
> In addition, I think the mere existence of setuptools stifles progress
> on distutils, which is where all the clever tricks of setuptools should
> properly appear.  This would let the whole community of Python developers
> work on the codebase.
>
> I'd like to see a flag on PyPI marking whether the package relies on
> setuptools, in which case I'll avoid it, or voluntarily entangles itself
> with setuptools if present (as the only known way to create eggs), or is
> setuptools-free (my preferred configuration).  Frankly, I'd also recommend
> putting up a warning to developers on PyPI noting these problems with
> setuptools.
>
>   
Does your bug still exist in Distribute? If so, please report it at 
http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/ (assuming that bitbucket is 
operational, which it currently isn't)
> Bill
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