[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 at 07:53, Steve Holden wrote:
> I don't claim to have all the answers, but distutils and setuptools are
> for the savvy users - people who build distros and those who maintain
> their own systems independent of their distribution's packaging
> standard. As time goes by, however, and the Lunix installed base
> continues to grow, the majority of users will expect to rely on the
> standard installation mechanisms of their distribution, and that will
> never be setuptools or distutils.

+1.

Or any other Python-only package manager.

And that goes at least double for Windows :)

I am (among other things) a software developer, and I am quite capable of
maintaining my own python installation outside the system one, and do so
for testing and development.  But for anything else, I rely on the system
package manager to install my Python packages.  If the extension hasn't
been packaged for my distribution, I typically will either not use it,
or I will install it somewhere other than the system default location.

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