[Python-Dev] PEP 395: Module Aliasing

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Fri Mar 4 18:56:16 CET 2011


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> That (below) is not distutils it is setuptools. distutils just uses
> `scripts=[...]`, which annoyingly *doesn't* work with setuptools.

Right; distutils scripts are just sad.

OTOH, entry-point based scripts are something setuptools got very,
very right.  Probably not perfect, but... I've not yet needed anything
different in practice.


  -Fred

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