phillip j eby moetelecommunitycom 1258 3202008 0400 tres seaver wrote lot setuptools warts driven related design problems distutils choice use imperative procedural code everything declarative approach hooks cases actually need likely 5 existing packages would made writing tools top framework much simpler ironic python powerful tool tasks normally done distutils setuptools restricted thererfore introspectable configurationdriven approoach seems much cleaner 1 _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 124624 0400 pythondev pep 365 adding pkg_resources module