[Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py

[Guido van Rossum]

> >   SH> I'm still a little concerned that people will use setup.py the
> >   SH> normal way (without reading docs) and make a bit of a mess:
> 
> > It gives me the willies, too.
> 
> Does moving setup.py to inst satisfy everyone's concerns?

OTOH, the nice thing of having a setup.py in the usual place is that
people don't have to guess.  Maybe there should be a toplevel setup.py
that does the right thing?  (A Makefile is not conventional for Python
apps.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)