Might as well answer the survey myself: > A few questions (please add more) so far are:
> (1) Should setuptools be standard? Not at this stage. What pythonistas need is a cross-platform package manager that is included in the stdlib. Setuptools is simply not mature enough nor pythonic enough to be standard in its current form. > (2) What bugs you most about the current featureset? - no uninstall so I have to spend time manually removing old egg files/ directories - pollutes my site-packages directory with lots of sparse egg-info files - uglifies my sys.path - the egg directory structure is unpythonically deep - confusing documentation - easy_install is a mouthful (why not 'python -m egg.install') > (3) Which features do you need the most (list in order of need)? - uninstall - clean up location of egg files - better dependency management (doesn't break) - works with multiple versions of python - list available packages / versions / dependencies - local database of packages (why not use sqlite?) > (4) Shouldn't we just port gems to python? I don't think that's bad idea... > (5) What's the best community process to improve setuptools? Perhaps we can all contribute some cash/time/effort to improve setuptools or even rewrite the python package manager of our collective dreams... > (6) What's your ideal conception of the 'standard python package > manager? Pure Python. Combines the best features of port/apt-get/gems while being in the stdlib AK -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
