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Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system.

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From	Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system.
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In order to build and run Mercurial on Linux, I needed Python with 
docutils.

I've just installed Python from source and later setuptools. As a 
non-Pythonista, my impression has been that the procedure of installing 
setuptools and then using them is quite straightforward, but it's not 
advertised enough to newcomers.

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Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-01-18 10:24 -0800
  Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 12:26 -0800
  Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2012-01-19 09:56 +0100
    Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-01-19 09:05 -0800
      Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 17:21 +0000
      Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 09:20 -0700
      Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2012-01-22 10:38 +0100
  Re: Please don't use "setuptools", the "rotten .egg" install system. Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 00:50 +0000

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