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The trouble with setuptools

November 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

http://orestis.gr/blog/2008/10/26/trouble-setuptools/ asks Hoosgot,

One of the pleasures of open source is that random people contribute back uninvited. I was extremely flattered when the previous week I received an email from Michael Thalmeier with a link to a git branch containing all the necessary work for PySmell to support setuptools. Indeed, PySmell is now available at PyPI, however with only Python2.5 support, and not tested on Windows yet (but will soon! Windows is a top priority for PySmell). The trouble I had with setuptools was: Muddled documentation The setuptools documentation assumes an intimate knowledge of distutils. Being completely new to this packaging thing, I was completely lost for a while. Then it clicked on me that setuptools is an extension of distutils, adding some

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  • 1 Jeana Perez // Nov 12, 2008 at 7:44 pm

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