[Distutils] pip vs easy_install vs distutils2

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 04, 2010, at 01:10 AM, Ben Finney wrote:

>Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:
>
>> On May 29, 2010, at 09:12 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> >That's the point I am trying to express: it's "implicit, embed,
>> >installers in project's setup.py" vs "an installer globally installed,
>> >knowing how to install projects that follows a given standard"
>>
>> I feel pretty firmly that the choice of installer should /not/ be left
>> up to the project's setup.py. That's within the domain of the user, or
>> by proxy, their operating system.
>
>That is the ideal, yes. We need to get to the point where the packaging
>data stops being an executable program, and is instead purely
>declarative metadata with a well-defined format and semantic
>speification.

As Tarek knows I'd say: +1 :)

-Barry
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