[SciPy-dev] requesting feedback on/editing of scikits wiki-page

[David Cournapeau]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> I agree with you here, but that's a consequence of the history of numpy, 
> I guess. Now, I don't find setuptools that much clearer myself. Maybe it 
> is just because I have not used it extensively, but I always found 
> setuptools (and distutils for that matter) quite complicated for 
> anything not trivial.
>
> I had to spend 2 hours to convert my project to setuptools, and for the 
> only benefit to have support for namespace. And it still does not work 
> because for some reasons, files automatically included by setuptools for 
> install target are not included when using sdist target, whereas there 
> is no difference between those targets with distutils...
Well, I spend one hour trying to make something which is actually a bug, 
and is not even solved yet. Yeah...

http://www.mail-archive.com/distutils-sig@python.org/msg02794.html

David