Re: 'python-build-system'

[Cyril Roelandt]

On 04/29/2013 01:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Cyril Roelandt<address@hidden>  skribis:
>
> > On 04/28/2013 03:55 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
> > > > What’s the status of this?  It would be great to have it in time for
> > > > 0.2.
> > >
> > > OK, I'll try to finalize it today.
> >
> > Should we really call this "python-build-system" ? I think there are a
> > few different build systems for Python, even though they are all forks
> > of one another (distutils, setuptools, distutils2, distribute, and
> > maybe others).
>
> But how do they differ from the user’s POV?  My understanding was that
> distutils* and setuptools provide the ‘python setup.py’ interface, with
> the same arguments and everything, no?

Well, I have always used "python setup.py <subcommand>", but there might 
be a few differences between these build systems:

http://wokslog.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/distutils-diff/


Cyril.