3 engineers on Hacker News describe using setuptools first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“My ire was more focused on Setuptools because of bootstrapping problems with setup.py”
regret · personal · zahlman · 2025-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For Python I prefer using setuptools without further dependency to cmake, to make it easier for installation.”
endorse · personal · erwincoumans · 2022-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I feel like a boomer just compiling Python from source and using venv/pip/setuptools/wheel until all the stupidity blows over.”
neutral · personal · nerpderp82 · 2023-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?