[Python-Dev] a new setuptools release?

[Michael Foord]

P.J. Eby wrote:
> At 07:27 PM 10/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Having more competition will also help, e.g. ActiveState's PyPM looks
>> promising (provided they choose to open-source it) and then there's
>> pip.
>
> Note that both PyPM and pip use setuptools as an important piece of 
> their implementation (as does buildout), so they are technically the 
> competition of easy_install, rather than setuptools per se.
>
> IOW, putting setuptools in the stdlib wouldn't be declaring a victor 
> in the installation tools competition, it'd simply be providing 
> infrastructure for (present and future) tools to build on.
>

I'd like to see PEP 370 (user site-packages folders) compatibility as a 
pre-condition of moving Distribute (or components of it) into the 
standard library.

There are some issues around PEP 370 for alternative implementations 
that I'd like to address as a compatibility fix for Python 2.6 as well. :-)

Michael

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