[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 21 11:47:41 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> You
> can't blame KDE for providing mechanisms that only work in the KDE
> world. It's fine for Python to provide Python-specific solutions for
> issues that have no cross-platform native solution.

Also keep in mind that we're talking about resources
used internally by the application. They don't *need*
to be accessible outside the application. So I don't
think the KDE argument applies here.

--
Greg


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