Re: to distribute_setup() or not, that is the question
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 17:06:20 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I've had a few conversations about this between Scott and Jakub, but I think
> it's worth opening up to all of debian-python.
>
> Upstream, my flufl.* packages all have the following two lines at the top of
> their setup.py files:
>
> -----snip snip-----
> import distribute_setup
> distribute_setup.use_setuptools()
> -----snip snip-----
>
> This is useful when developing the package because it ensures that I'll have a
> new enough distribute when doing upstream development. In fact, if a new
> enough distribute is not available, one will be downloaded from the
> Cheeseshop. This works great for platform-independent upstream development.
>
I think a build system downloading random stuff from random places on
the internet is just as insane upstream as in debian...
Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/
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