Future of setuptools and distribute in MacPorts

[Akira Kitada]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> py26-distribute was recently added to MacPorts.
>
> Ports can declare conflicts with other ports now, as of MacPorts 1.8.0.
> py26-distribute does declare that it conflicts with py26-setuptools.

Thanks for the tip. I couldn't find it in MacPorts Guide so I thought it isn't.

> We could modify all ports that currently depend on py26-setuptools so that
> they could work with either py26-setuptools or py26-distribute, by using a
> path:-style dependency instead of a port:-style one. Or is py26-distribute a
> superset of py26-setuptools, to be preferred in all cases?

Yes Distribute 0.6.x is better setuptools. If you find bugs in Distribute
it will be fixed in upstream within a reasonable time.
Guido also said he supports Distribute.