[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Éric Araujo]

Le 30/08/2013 03:23, Paul Moore a écrit :
> On 30 August 2013 00:08, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We also need to officially bless pip's trick of forcing the use of
>> setuptools for distutils based setup.py files.
> Do we? What does official blessing imply? We've managed for years without
> the trick being "official"...
> 
> The main reason it is currently used is to allow setup.py install to
> specify --record, so that we can get the list of installed files. If
> distutils added a --record flag, for example, I don't believe we'd need the
> hack at all. (Obviously, we'd still need setuptools so we could use wheel
> to build wheels, but that's somewhat different as it's a new feature).
> Maybe a small distutils patch is better than blessing setuptools here?

distutils’ install command provides --record.

Regards