Opened 15 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#11372 closed New feature (wontfix)

Support setup.py develop

Reported by: Kenneth Arnold Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Other) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Kenneth Arnold Triage Stage: Design decision needed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/#installing-development-version is overly complex because you have to deal with paths etc. With the attached tiny patch, steps 3 and 4 become: run python setup.py develop.

Unlike the other setuptools tickets, you don't have to switch to the setuptools way of doing things in order to use it; you can just opportunistically import from setuptools if it's available.

Attachments (1)

django-minisetuptools.patch (706 bytes ) - added by Kenneth Arnold 15 years ago.

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Change History (5)

by Kenneth Arnold, 15 years ago

Attachment: django-minisetuptools.patch added

comment:1 by Kenneth Arnold, 15 years ago

Cc: Kenneth Arnold added

comment:2 by Alex Gaynor, 15 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

comment:3 by Julien Phalip, 13 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: New feature

comment:4 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Easy pickings: unset
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
UI/UX: unset

Developers may have setuptools installed because they need a package that requires it. That doesn't mean they prefer it over distutils.

distutils, pip and virtualenv are currently the preferred solutions. See http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/14/packaging/ for more background on this issue.

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