[Distutils] Q about best practices now (or near future)

Marcus Smith qwcode at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 05:37:20 CEST 2013


> As of right now the User's Guide doesn't mention using setuptools for
> building (beyond an empty header listing) and goes with the old distutils
> setup.py approach. It also words things like you don't know how to really
> use Python and are starting a project entirely from scratch.
>

Although most of the text from the original Hitchhiker Guide is gone at
this point (since the "fork" a few months back),  the "Packaging Tutorial"
as it is, is mostly still carryover from that.  Don't take it is
intentional new writing.
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