On Feb 1, 10:57 pm, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > > What's wrong with Enstaller from Enthought ? > > for a start.... > > onhttps://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Enstaller > > it claims to be depracated...
Hello, Actually it was version 2.x and earlier that was deprecated and we just hadn't updated that wiki page in a long time. Thanks for pointing that out! I've now updated it with a bit of news at the top. In short Enstaller 3.x is alive and well and available from PyPi. We had the downtime for exactly the reason pointed out on this thread -- which is that we found the old code to be extremely unstable as users updated any of the dependencies on which Enstaller depended -- things such as wxPython, Traits, etc. As of now, Enstaller 3.x is a command-line only tool but it does provide a lot of benefits over standard setuptools -- uninstall, update/upgrade command, found eggs aren't pre-pended to the full sys.path but instead inserted before the containing directory, etc. Our vision for re-implementing the GUI is to provide it via a web- based frontend as (a) the basic libraries for that ARE included in the standard lib and (b) we figure more people have a working web browser than have the Python bindings to any one of various widget libraries installed. We'd welcome others to the project if anyone would like to help out! Just contact us at i...@enthought.com for procedures on getting repo privileges. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
