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Maybe I'm too old-fashioned then. But I like that you don't have any dependencies when using distutils/setuputils with a `setup.py` file, so if you don't distri
by ThePhysicist 6y ago
Maybe I'm too old-fashioned then. But I like that you don't have any dependencies when using distutils/setuputils with a `setup.py` file, so if you don't distribute your code you're already done. I'm also not a fan of tools that are just wrappers around other tools.
- takluyver 6y agoFlit isn't (mostly) a wrapper around other tools - it has its own code to create and upload packages. This was one of the motivating cases for the PEPs (517, 518) defining a standard interface for build tools, so it's practical to make tools like this without wrapping setuptools. (flit install does wrap pip, however)
- cixinlui 6y agoHow does setuptools not count as a dependency? If you've never run into setuptools compatibility problems, you've either been much luckier than me, or you haven't done much with Python packages. Vanilla ubuntu used to come with a version of setuptools which didn't work for installing many recent packages.