[Pyrex] Re: ANN: Pyrex 0.9.4 - LValue Casts are Dead!

[Robert Kern]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Andrew Straw wrote:
> 
>>Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>
>>>I'd also be happy if the following little patch was applied in the fixed
>>>version to enable the use of setuptools in setup.py (for eggs and the like).
>>>
>>
>>Doing it like you propose will make a lot of people upset -- just
>>because they have ('were forced to have') setuptools installed doesn't
>>mean they want to make .eggs out of everything.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Although I'm not one of them (quite the opposite), there are people who
>>really dislike setuptools out there....
> 
> I know. Still, if you have it installed, you'd be annoyed if it wasn't
> available if you wanted to use it. Just try
> 
> python setup.py bdist_egg
> 
> with the current version. That's all the patch enables. It doesn't do any harm
> if you're not using eggs.

It does change "python setup.py install".

I have a script that imports setuptools and then execs the given setup.py. I
never need to worry about packages that weren't written for setuptools even
though I use eggs almost exclusively.

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Robert Kern
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