On Jul 7, 4:06 am, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > David Lyon wrote: > > > What hasn't happened is enough testing of pypi packages and installing > > with setuptools/pip/enstall from pypi. > > What needs testing? > > More important for me is which of these has the most active development > community. How do we judge that?
Currently, distutils itself is being actively developed. More info about this here: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ My (albeit anonymous) advice is: use distutils. Manually download packages as-needed from PyPI and install manually using standard distutils. Read more about distutils here http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils and of course in the Python docs. If you want to contribute, my first guess would be that Tarek could use help writing tests (but I don't know what distutils coverage looks like at the moment). When Tarek says, "For package installation that takes care of dependencies, uninstall, etc., use $tool", then I'll start using $tool. Until then, it's just straight distutils for me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
