Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] [Plone-Users] ZopeSkel version pinning invalid

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

Oh, I should state that I am only stating my personal views on
setuptools here. I do not know Yuri's position and will use whatever
he prefers.

This was simply an attempt to explain why I did what I did.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:
> First, sorry for not responding directly to this message. As I've
> stated elsewhere, my connectivity has been very limited these past few
> weeks and probably will be for the next couple months. My normal dev
> box for this stuff is currently disassembled and in storage - making
> proper testing in all supported versions less than ideal. Like many
> open source projects, I do this in my spare time and sometimes life
> gets in the way.
>
> Second, I will add that while setuptools certainly has it's merits, I
> personally do not care for it and would prefer to not use it at all.
> For more specifics from someone smarter than me, I would suggest
> reading Ian Bicking's thoughts (among others) on setuptools (the
> creator of pip and virtualenv). Of course, at the same time I realize
> that others actually use easy_install regularly (including markdown
> users) so I make sure it works.
>
> However, that's about as far as I prefer to go. I saw your patch
> switched to using setuptools and I stopped reading. I could suggest
> that if someone provides a patch that allows use of various extended
> features of setuptools we would use it, but the fact is, I don't want
> to maintain it.
>

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