[lxml-dev] changes to lxml's setup.py

Stefan Behnel behnel_ml at gkec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Wed Nov 22 18:27:59 CET 2006



Martijn Faassen wrote:
> I've just checked in a change to lxml that refactors lxml's setup.py to 
> be more hackable.
> 
> I've also made everything depend in a hard way on setuptools being 
> available on the system - I think supporting old-style distutils is just 
> going to be too much of a distraction to maintain properly.

I think it would then be a good idea to add the ez_setup.py script to SVN.
This would allow users that do not have setuptools installed but have an
online connection to have setup.py download it for them automatically (and use
it from the current directory).

Stefan



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