Re: [pyxl] Minor install changes proposal for xlrd

[Chris Withers]

On 09/04/2013 02:19, Gabi Davar wrote:
> The goal is to make the runxlrd script more windows friendly.

I'm afraid I don't agree that this will make it more windows friendly...

> Gabi Davar:
>
> The discussion above submitted to python-excel mailing list as is.
>
> we won't be shipping a distribute_setup.py
>
> Can you please share the rational behind this statement?

xlrd isn't wedded to any particular flavour of python package management
tool and will work just the same with pip, setuptools or distribute.

As a result, we don't include any of the one-shot setup files.
The is particularly true of distribute, which is in the process of being
merged back into setuptools.

> runxlrd is a distutils script, not a setuptools console script,
> and will remain that way.
>
> Can you please share the rational behind this statement? Especially
> given themany benefits
> <http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/setuptools.html#automatic-script-creation>?

Distutils scripts are created on install in the same way as setuptools
scripts. What problem are you trying to solve here?

> Fromhttp://psyco.sourceforge.net/:
>
> Psyco is unmaintained and dead. Please look at PyPy for the
> state-of-the-art in JIT compilers for Python.

Indeed, but what does this have to do with your stated goals?
There's no benefit to removing this code as best I can see.

cheers,

Chris

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