[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

[Georg Brandl]

Tarek Ziadé schrieb:

> For the documentation part I am afraid it will be messy for the end
> users trying to package apps in Python *until* all PEPs
> have made it into Python.
> 
> Although, as Ian Bicking says: we could write today some kind of
> all-in-one tutorial so end-users can work out without having to run
> after the documenation in several places.

Big +1, and I would be more than willing to include it in the standard
Python documentation, *even* if it mostly describes setuptools/distribute/pip.

When people want to package a library, they *will* look for docs in Python,
and at the moment they only find the distutils reference.  While the latter
is necessary, a more howto-like standard document is much needed.

Georg

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