Bob Kline wrote:
>  Why doesn't ActiveState's Python (remember 
>  the slogan "batteries included"?) come with the tools needed to install 
>  third-party packages?  Have we stumbled into some messy political turf 
>  battle over installer philosophies, or is this just an oversight?

Currently ActivePython is just doing no more than what the Python core 
installer does.

More this is just early days (despite the use of "early" seeming crazy 
years after distutils and later setuptools came about). There is still a 
lot of discussion of the packaging issues for Python at the core level 
(on the distutils-sig and catalog-sig lists and recently at the PyCon 
conference).

It isn't yet clear (IMHO) if setuptools is the best technology for the 
future for Python packaging.

Sincerely,
Trent

-- 
Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com
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