[Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py

[Shane Hathaway]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>  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.)

I think you're suggesting moving setup.py to <zope>/lib/python then 
creating a small setup.py in <zope> that helps the user a little.  That 
would be good IMHO.  The setup.py in <zope> might be a simple wrapper 
around setup.py in <zope>/lib/python, with the exception that when you 
invoke it with the single argument "install", it tells you that an 
install location is required.

Shane