[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.1 released

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 16:45:30 CEST 2009


Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am happy to announce the release of Distribute 0.6.1.
> 
> Changes:
> 
> * zip_ok is now True by default.
> * package_index.urlopen now catches BadStatusLine and malformed url
> errors. * Fixed invalid URL error catching.
> * Fixed invalid bootstraping with easy_install installation. Thanks to
> Florian Shchulze for the help
> * Removed buildout/bootstrap.py. A new repository at bitbucket.org
> will create a specific bootstrap.py script.
> * The bootstrap process leave setuptools alone if detected in the
> system and --root, --user or --prefix is provided, but is not in the
> same location.
> 
> The next release of the 0.6 series will try to adress all remaining
> bugs in the tracker,
> 
> The first 0.7 release is still under heavy work.
> 
Is there some summary of advantages of distribute compared to setuptools?



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