[BangPypers] setuptools and distutils confusion

[Gopalakrishnan Subramani]

Thanks Noufal. I misunderstood. I was using disutils for to create a package
for my app.

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Gopal




On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gopalakrishnan Subramani <gopalakrishnan.subramani at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > setuptools is for the users who use a package produced by someone.
> > disutils is for users who produce the package.
>
> Not really. distutils is the packaging system provided by the standard
> library.
>
> setuptools is an extension of distutils which provides automatic
> fetching from PyPI etc. It's installer is easy_install.
>
> distribute is a fork of setuptools that was created because setuptools
> was stagnating.
>
> pip is a replacement for easy_install that's standalone.
>
> distutils2 is a completel rewrite and cleanup of the above mess.
>
>
> [...]
>
>
> --
> ~noufal
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>
> I disagree with unanimity.
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