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From: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 'python-build-system'
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:24:46 +0200
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On 04/29/2013 01:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Cyril Roelandt<tipecaml@gmail.com>  skribis:
>
>> On 04/28/2013 03:55 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
>>>> What’s the status of this?  It would be great to have it in time for
>>>> 0.2.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll try to finalize it today.
>>
>> Should we really call this "python-build-system" ? I think there are a
>> few different build systems for Python, even though they are all forks
>> of one another (distutils, setuptools, distutils2, distribute, and
>> maybe others).
>
> But how do they differ from the user’s POV?  My understanding was that
> distutils* and setuptools provide the ‘python setup.py’ interface, with
> the same arguments and everything, no?
>

Well, I have always used "python setup.py <subcommand>", but there might 
be a few differences between these build systems:

http://wokslog.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/distutils-diff/


Cyril.