[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> Yes but this means that you have to wait for the next version of the
> "big" package
> when a bug is corrected or a feature added, or you need to patch it.
> (or maybe use the namespace trick to override it)
>
> Having them as separated package allow different release cycles,  
> which makes it
> more "agile".
>
> I think there should be a right middle between a big package and a  
> myriad of
> small ones.
>
> In Zope for instance, we could probably reunite a lot of package in  
> a single
> package, because they don't evolve much anymore. (things like  
> zope.interface)

Maybe there's a difference between being a Zope user and using zope  
packages?  I think it's great that I can pick and choose  
zope.interfaces and other packages in my not-Zope project.  But if I'm  
deploying actual Zope-the-web-thing I just want to install it from my  
distro and be done with it.  It's up to my distro to determine  
compatibility, handle bug and security fixing, etc.

Barry

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