[Distutils] setuptools 0.6c4 released

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:32 PM 1/10/2007 +0200, David Fraser wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>Prior to the final release of setuptools 0.6, I intend to update ez_setup 
>>to do one or both of the following things:
>>
>>1. It will detect and download the current stable setuptools release from 
>>the Cheeseshop, AND/OR
>>
>>2. It will instruct the user to visit the cheeseshop page and follow the 
>>installation instructions there.
>>
>>I'm not sure yet which is the best approach, so I'll probably just do 
>>both.  :)
>>
>What about
>3. It will ask the user if it wants to do 1, and otherwise do 2.

Um, no.  :)

First, you didn't supply a rationale or usage scenario to justify that, and 
second, setup scripts are never interactive.  (Or at least, I've never seen 
one that is.)  Remember, ez_setup isn't being run on its own any more 
(although it will still support that).  We're talking about what will 
happen when you run "setup.py install" (or similar) on a project that uses 
setuptools, when setuptools is not installed.  The current mechanism of 
delaying 15 seconds before starting the download is about as interactive as 
it gets.

So, when I say, "do both", what I mean is that it would display 
instructions (#2) and delay 15 seconds or so before starting #1.