use of setuptools in SetupTools.py

Mike Bonnet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cheetah
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I was curious about this comment in SetupTools.py

if 'CHEETAH_USE_SETUPTOOLS' in os.environ:
    # @@TR: Please note that this is for testing purposes only!  PEAK setuptools
    # is not required or recommended for installing Cheetah.  Downstream
    # package managers (linux distros, etc.) should *not* enable this.

Several python frameworks (TurboGears for one) that use Cheetah require the egg-info metadata that setuptools generates, so we define CHEETAH_USE_SETUPTOOLS in the Fedora package for Cheetah.  I just wanted to verify that this is a supported installation method, and that future upgrades aren't likely to break it.

Thoughts?

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