[Python-Dev] packaging

[Tarek Ziadé]

Setup.py is gone in distutils2 and therefore in packaging
Le 14 mars 2011 18:27, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> a écrit :
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:00:50 -0400
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> And it's also a good way to prevent any conflict with 3.3 : the
>> standalone version for 2.4 to 3.2 is "distutils2", and people won't
>> have to deal with the same package being in the stdlib and at PyPI.
>> (like json vs simplejson, unittest vs unittest2...)
>
> But doesn't it also mean many setup.py scripts will have very tedious
> import sequences, such as:
>
> try:
> from packaging.compiler import FooCompiler
> from packaging.commands import BarCommand
> except ImportError:
> try:
> from distutils2.compiler import FooCompiler
> from distutils2.commands import BarCommand
> except ImportError:
> try:
> from setuptools.compiler import FooCompiler
> from setuptools.commands import OtherNameForBarCommand as \
> BarCommand
> except ImportError:
> from distutils.compiler import FooCompiler
> from distutils.commands import OtherNameForBarCommand as \
> BarCommand
>
> (I'm still remembering the import dances which were necessary to get
> cElementTree/ElementTree in the 2.4-2.5 days)
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
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