[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:

>
> That said, I have to add that I am not a big fan of setuptools. Last
> time I checked, they didn't handle installation of C header files in
> a useful way. Since most of my packages include C header files and
> depend on other packages' C header files, setuptools are of little
> use for me.

I have a patch for setuptools 0.7 that includes header files in eggs  
and ensures that other setuptools-aware packages see those during  
build_ext. PJE has indicated that something like this will be added  
to setuptools in 0.7 timeframe.

I'm rather happy with setuptools, there are some cosmetic problems  
(like the header-file thingy), but the core seems pretty well thought  
out. The main thing I'm missing right now are nice command-line  
utilities for managing installed eggs (easy_install is cool, but I  
want to be able to list installed eggs and uninstall them as well). ls 
(1) and rm(1) work for those tasks, but aren't ideal. This features  
is appearently also on the list for the 0.7 release (but not yet  
implemented).

Ronald
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