Future of setuptools and distribute in MacPorts

[Akira Kitada]

Appanrently Debian also adopted Distribute for setuptools, I mean,
aptitude install python-setuptools installs 'distribute'.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Akira Kitada <akitada at macports.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Bryan Blackburn <blb at macports.org> wrote:
>> Moving over to distribute is one possibility, but the discussion on (at
>> least) distutils-sig seems like the python community hasn't quite decided on
>> where things are going yet...at least with the patched setuptools things
>> should still work as well as they have until we have a clearer overall idea
>> of where things will be going.
>
> I think that's not what the Python community decides but the
> distributer, in this case,
> the MacPorts community.
>
>> Note that I also added py26-distribute, but as you note it does conflict
>> with py26-setuptools, so moving to it would be painful.  Maybe it can be the
>> preferred one for py27 ports?
>
> How about starting it now?
>
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>> Thanks.
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