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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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