From 7a1b4848a3d34a263544fadf08178c91c12fbad0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robby Workman Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:13:49 -0500 Subject: python/*: Moved a lot of Python stuff here The criteria for whether something "belongs" in Development or Libraries or Python or ... is admittedly arbitrary. As a general rule, if it could be either Libraries or Python, it's Python. Otherwise, pick one and we'll go from there... Signed-off-by: Robby Workman --- python/pysetuptools/README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 python/pysetuptools/README (limited to 'python/pysetuptools/README') diff --git a/python/pysetuptools/README b/python/pysetuptools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..851e044f23 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/pysetuptools/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +pysetuptools (a collection of enhancements to Python distutils) +Note: the name of the source package is 'setuptools'. Since 'setuptools' +is such a generic name, this package uses the name 'pysetuptools' to avoid +any potential future conflicts. The actual installation paths and file +names are not modified in any way. + +setuptools allow you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, +especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. + +Packages built and distributed using setuptools look to the user like ordinary +Python packages based on the distutils. Your users don't need to install or +even know about setuptools in order to use them, and you don't have to include +the entire setuptools package in your distributions. By including just a single +bootstrap module (an 8K .py file), your package will automatically download and +install setuptools if the user is building your package from source and doesn't +have a suitable version already installed. + +Requires: >=python-2.3.5 on 32-bit systems >=python-2.4 on 64-bit systems -- cgit v1.2.3