Felix Schwarz <felix.schw...@web.de> wrote: > Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: > > If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared > > library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. > > Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setuptools > fork. I know that some Linux distributions are using distribute > already as a drop-in replacement for setuptools (Fedora Linux will > switch to distribute for F13 very likely).
This seems to me to simply be going further down the wrong path that setuptools initiated. The right thing to do (purely IMO) is to fix distutils to add the functionality needed. Bill