[Distutils] simpler distutils.cmd.Command

[kost BebiX]

hi!
I am really confused about all the setuptools/distutils/distribute/distutils2/easy_install/pip situation, but still have a little frustration about writing your own command for python setup.py your_command_name.

Right now, for example, babel package provides it's command::

    python setup.py extract_messages

To do that, the part::

    [distutils.commands]
    extract_messages = babel.messages.frontend:extract_messages

is ok, but what I dislike is the whole::

    from distutils.cmd import Command
    
    class extract_messages(Command):
        # provide user_options and 3 more function implementations in here
        pass

thing. I find it really implicit.

I mean, how do I run the command extract_messages from python? Maybe implementation of command should be that it can be called from regular python code like::

    extract_messages(my_custom_kwargs=here)

?

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