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Taking a quick look through this it looks pretty good! I find that beginners have tons of trouble navigating the slightly tricky waters that is packaging in Pyt
by JulianWasTaken 14y ago
Taking a quick look through this it looks pretty good! I find that beginners have tons of trouble navigating the slightly tricky waters that is packaging in Python, so more resources is great.
One thing I think is missing is to point out not to use setuptools, but to use the less broken, more maintained, drop in replacement distribute (http://guide.python-distribute.org/ http://guide.python-distribute.org/). That website also has some further information on the packaging ecosystem that's worth flipping through.
- storborg 14y agoThanks, I'll definitely add that to the "See Also" section. Can you elaborate on the places where setuptools is broken? I wanted to keep things as simple as possible for the sake of this tutorial, and I think the described constraints should avoid any setuptools bugs.
- JulianWasTaken 14y agoThere are various posts on the distribute/setuptools/distutils mailing list. I don't keep track personally, but I do know that it's pretty widely accepted at this point to use distribute.
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- borntyping 14y agoDoesn't distribute miss out on a few of setuptools really useful features, like develop installs?
- JulianWasTaken 14y agoIt has develop. I rarely use it, but it's there. AFAIK it is not missing any features that setuptools has but I stick to the simple stuff.