[Distutils] PEP439 and backward compat / easy_install / distlib

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 14:20:14 CET 2013


> Just assuming that every sdist with old metadata requires setuptools would work, although it will be strange to see that some packages @work that use plain disutils suddenly seem to require setuptool :-)

pip does this already, importing setuptools before running any setup.py

>> These improved installers will target both 2.7 and 3.4. I do understand that some people feel it is harder to say "manually download the installer and then install what you want" rather than "manually download and install the package you want".
>
> No me.  I'm glad to see that the hard work by everyone working in the packaging space is coming to fruition.  Infrastructure work is almost never glamorous, and work on Python's packaging system appears to be more stressful than average.

You said it.


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