On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:16:01 -0700, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > How will your solution be different from distutils, setuptools, pip, > zc.buildout and a couple other similar packages I don't recall now?
For a start.. it doesn't replace those.. it drives them... > Have you considered joining one of these efforts in order to not > fragment the "packaging and distribution" arena? They seem pretty comprehensive and well developed as they are. I am not sure what I could do to improve the under-the-hood functionality at this point in time. My GUI just drives their back end code.. > Have you evaluated these solutions in detail and have found that they > are not appropriate for your needs? Yes. They don't have a GUI. If yes, what is the most problematic features of these > already existing solutions that you don't like? Not having a GUI is the biggest problem. Since I am swapping languages (Python/Perl/+1 more) in any given day I'm just after something that is "simple". I can never remember the commandlines.. Regards David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list