[Yt-dev] distribute and setuptools

[j s oishi]

Matt,

This is great. As someone who has the magical ability to ruin any
setuptools related anything, I'm excited. The instinfo command sounds
great, and I would be happy to help with it.

j

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Over the last little while, there has been a conscious motion of the
> Python community away from "setuptools" to "distribute."  The upshot
> of this is that distribute is maintained by a larger body of people
> and is much more active.  Additionally, many of the bugs of setuptools
> have been fixed.  ( The homepage is here:
> http://packages.python.org/distribute/index.html )
>
> Setuptools provides a couple things: mainly, and most visibly, it's
> the source of 'easy_install' and 'ez_setup.py', both of which are
> installed by yt and by the yt install script.  I've committed a change
> to trunk that will, instead, install the distribute packages.  This
> should be a drop in replacement and re-running the install script
> should update everything correctly.  easy_install will still be
> provided, but from distribute instead of setuptools.  Additionally,
> I've added 'pip', which is a newer piece of software that does the
> same thing 'easy_install' does.  "pip install" is more reliable and
> less opaque than "easy_install."
>
> Anyway, I wanted to give you all a heads up.  If you run into problems
> with anything following this change, please let me know!
>
> With distribute, I'm going to be adding an "instinfo" command to the
> "yt" script, which will hopefully help with getting information about
> the current installation and so on.  This should alleviate some of the
> problems of figuring out where things are installed, etc etc, and
> maybe even add an auto-update command.
>
> -Matt
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