Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:39:35 -0700 From: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alexbl@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@freebsd.org> Cc: python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setuptools status Message-ID: <20070610203735.CFB733B477@cherenkov.geekfire.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420706101035j2cb561f8p345a14e95f31090f@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420706101035j2cb561f8p345a14e95f31090f@mail.gmail.com>
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> Python modules are slowly moving from distutils > to setuptools. I have no python experience, but > I see that this causes serious and annoying > problems for newer ports. > Are you referring to the OSRELEASE problem, or are you referring to the intra-port egg dependency problem? > Is there someone willing to identify and attempt > to solve the problems? We have ok solutions for many of these problems; it's hard to do anything better (or simply impossible) in some cases. In other cases the update to Python 2.5 (which I started fixing on and miwi@ is helping out with) includes considerably better support for setuptools. Alex
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