[IronPython] Using setuptools to provide platform independence

[Michael Foord]

Hello all,

Interesting post on how the shapely library (geometry calculation 
package) aims for platform independence using setuptools to switch the 
calculation backend.

http://sgillies.net/blog/877/plugins-for-shapely

This already works for CPython and head of Jython - "IronPython seems to 
be a little farther behind".

Part of the setuptools infrastructure includes dependency management, so 
getting to run on IronPython has lots of potential benefits.

All the best,


Michael Foord

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