[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Tools like setuptools, zc.buildout, etc. seem great for developers but 
> not very good for distributions.  At last year's Pycon I think there was 
> agreement from the Linux distributors that distutils, etc. just wasn't 
> very useful for them.

I think distutils is different here - it not only helps creating
distributions (i.e. deployable package files), but also allows
direct installation. This, in turn, is used to build the packages
for Linux distributions. E.g. debian/rules often contains a
"setup.py install" call in its build step (and there is even a
CDBS python-distutils.mk fragment)

In that sense, distutils is for Python what make is for C.

Regards,
Martin