[Distutils] [buildout] RFC: buildout support for distribute

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/10/13 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 09:25 PM 10/13/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> Notice that the current trunk of Distribute is now changing any
>> 'setuptools'
>> requirement that is tiggered using "Requirement.parse" and "resolve" APIs
>> into
>> a 'distribute' one.
>
> Please note that this change will cause problems for people in the future,
> as new features are introduced in the 0.7a1 line.  The earlier version of
> this hack, which only ignored requests for older versions of setuptools,
> would not have caused such a problem.
>
> I would suggest that Distribute should only silently ignore requests for
> versions of setuptools that it can explicitly emulate; other requests should
> result in an error, so that a problem cannot pass silently.
>
> Otherwise, a package depending on new features in the 0.7 line will silently
> fail when those features are not present in its operating environment.

Ok sure, makes sense. We will return 'distribute' only if 'setuptools'
is from the 0.6.x series
and below.