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Latest post is a big one: “Why you shouldn’t invoke setup​.py directly”

A lot of people don’t know about this because we haven’t been great about getting the word out. This blog post is in part an attempt to remedy this.

Please help spread the word!

blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/

Paul Ganssle · Paul Ganssle - Why you shouldn't invoke setup.py directlyThe setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches. As a result, all direct...
Bastian Venthur

@pganssle That explains why setup.py upload did not work properly for >1year without a fix. Eventually I moved to twine -- thanks for the explanation!