[Zope-Coders] Heads up - setup.py

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:01:13 -0400


>>>>> "CM" == Chris McDonough <chrism@zope.com> writes:

    CM> I dont know if this is a popular position, why not just a
    CM> top-level Makefile, and maybe even a "configure" script (not
    CM> autoconf-produced) that would make installing Zope on UNIX
    CM> more like installing other UNIX programs (as opposed to other
    CM> Python programs).

+1.  setup.py and distutils is IMO really geared toward building and
installing Python packages not Python applications.

-Barry