text_combined: phillip j eby moetelecommunitycom 1231 3182008 0500 guido van rossum wrote hoping someone create simpler bootstrap module able download file pure python code install perhaps running setuppy assuming depends distutils things previously installed welcome module stdlib im sure pep even needed though interested parties certainly welcome write pep specifying behavior first 26 30 slated release september enough time get done unfortunately ive already tried explain download file install sufficiently wellspecified requirement implement robust tool even support arbitrary existing distutils sources still needs way document precisely tool support installing users produce correct files consume register properly pypi etc said perhaps well distutils documentation already proven inadequate specification users create files even important programs consume example distutils source distribution tarball filenames unambiguously machineparseable thats think specific format ie conventions defined work even merely set documented restrictions distutilsbased layout file naming conventions versioning etc words cant cake eat theres bootstrap tool must bless set packaging conventions including file naming version parsing use setuptools version parsing scheme identify latest stable version example setuptools filename component canonicalization escaping rules frankly dont care conventions unambiguously defined reasonably implementable producers consumers alike want sort robust documented standard installation bootstrap vector stdlib setuptools zcbuildout virtualenv dont maintain depend setuptools maintaining rejected existing robust welldocumented conventions automated processing python libraries say time part thread ask conventions want bless instead im bit loss supposed _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 091249 0400 pythondev pep 365 adding pkg_resources module