[Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:49:41PM +0200, Gour wrote:
> Andreas> whether *distributors* would love setup.py and my answer was
> Andreas> "probably not".  
> 
> Why not?

I had personally problems with setup.py and was advised by fellow Debian
maintainers to rather ignore this.
 
> What's wrong - from packagers perspective - to some kind of standard
> installation procedure.

It makes some assumptions which are not really valid.  It starts with
the fact that you are not installing to /usr but to `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr
and other things.
 
> Maybe you lack some packaging experience for non-Debian distros. ;)

Sure.  That's why I said that there is always the chance that I'm wrong.
 
> There are distros like Gentoo who are source-only and/or distros like
> Arch where not all the packages can easily move into official repos, so
> users have to build from the source and the setup.py greatly simplifies
> installation.

Hmm, does not really sound simple compared to installing a package.
 
Kind regards

     Andreas.

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