[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

[Walter Dörwald]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
>> I also don't think it will be the "death" of distutils. I think that
>> over time the two pieces of code will become closer together -
>> hopefully for Python 3.0 we can formally merge the two.
> 
> I was hoping that for Python 3.0, we could get around to unkludge the
> sys.path/meta_path/path_hooks/path_importer_cache big ball of hacks,
> possibly by replacing sys.path with something a bit more intelligent than
> a plain list.

+1000

I'd like to be able to simply import a file if I have the filename. And 
I'd like to be able to load sourcecode from an Oracle database and have 
useful "filename" and line number information if I get a traceback.

Servus,
    Walter