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

[Donald Stufft]

On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 July 2013 23:18, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Just picking up on this question:
> 1. As Brett says, is the recommendation that everyone should use setuptools?
> 2. If that's the case, why aren't we bundling setuptools in the same way that we are bundling pip?
> 3. If we were bundling setuptools, pip wouldn't need to go through the rigmarole of vendoring it.

Personally I think pip should be vendoring setuptools regardless. A package manager with dependencies is strange and there have been quite a few problems caused by setuptools getting in a bad state.

> 
> Paul.
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