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

[Baptiste Carvello]

Tennessee Leeuwenburg a écrit :
> I would suggest there may be three use cases for Python installation 
> tools. Bonus -- I'm not a web developer! :)
> 
> Case One: Developer wishing to install additional functionality into the 
> system Python interpreter forever
> Case Two: Developer wishing to install additional functionality into the 
> system Python interpreter for a specific task
> Case Three: Person wanting to install an application which happens to be 
> written in Python
> 

a maybe more exotic Case Four: the enlightened open-source user, who wants to 
install an application, but might like to look under the hood, either to tweek 
it to his needs, or to investigate a bug.

In that case, each application comming with a private version of various system 
libraries is unwelcomed complication, so that using the platform's package 
manager is a much better solution.

Cheers,
B.