Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <edi...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest
>> ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every
>> time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued.
>>
>> Are the above changes OK?
> 
> I'm not sure I see the benefit here -- what does it buy us to insure
> that we always have the latest ez_setup in our tree?

The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they
could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users wouldn't
have to go install another package themselves.

It's deprecated now. Don't use it.

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Robert Kern

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