[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

[Michael Foord]

  On 08/10/2010 14:28, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 15:22, Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Mmm.. setup.py is gone in D2, and setup.py will be the marker of d1.
> So, sorry for backing up to this, but isn't it true that many projects
> do custom stuff in their setup.py that they wouldn't be able to do in
> setup.cfg? Is the goal really to make that impossible/unnecessary?
The goal is to make it unnecessary. My understanding is that it will 
still be possible to use a setup.py, just unnecessary for the vast 
majority of cases.

All the best,

Michael

>   In
> Mercurial, for example, we have a fairly large setup.py that helps us
> deal with many kinds of issues: incomplete Python installations on
> different platforms, adding packages depending on the platform, do
> custom stuff to compile gettext files, etc...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan
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