Hunter has now a bit of everything (process attach, variable diffing like in pysnooper, env var activation, breakpoints, thread support and an api to build stuff on top) but without going overboard with overenineering (like serialization, storage or sql). For most intents and purposes it should replace every other tracer tool.
I think your last point is important. I don't think shell script writers should be concerned about Solaris/BSD if they are confident that they will use their scripts only in environments where bash is available.
Sorry, I meant "no one who replied to you knows what you're talking about". Still, that list don't tell much about potential breakages. Are you actually complaining about bash having too many features or are there actual breakages? Please illustrate with examples, not links to tedious changelogs and ad-hominems.
This is something quite similar to what I've worked on 8 years ago [1] although I gave up. I didn't have integration with other async frameworks/libs in mind from the beginning. I short, there weren't many things I could use it for. Plus it was slow - sure, there was no 'yield from' (PEP-380) back then.
It's interesting that David Beazley did it (he is certainly more qualified) but it's doomed if it doesn't play well with other libraries ...
`easy_install` is not a library per se, it's a binary offered by setuptools.
> distutils was a fork of setuptools
This is incorrect. Setuptools is an extension of distutils (it patches and extends distutils to have additional functionality). Distribute was a fork of Setuptools that has been merged back into Setuptools.
Also, `pth` is not a installation method - it's merely a way to customize the import system. It's a very scary feature as it allows one to execute arbitrary code (that can reside in the `.pth` file) when import paths are being set up (when the `site` module is being initialized).
> `easy_install` is not a library per se, it's a binary offered by setuptools.
I thought that I clarified that in my post, but if you could tell me what was confusing, I'll use that to inform future discussions I have on this.
> This is incorrect. Setuptools is an extension of distutils (it patches and extends distutils to have additional functionality). Distribute was a fork of Setuptools that has been merged back into Setuptools.
Correct, and one reason why the landscape has been confusing for a while (confusion between distutils/setuptools/distribute). Thankfully distribute has been merged back into setuptools.
> Also, `pth` is not a installation method
You're right. It's a way to customize the import system, but it's "main" usage in the wild is during installation/setup. The main place that I've seen it used is with easy_install + eggs (IIRC).
There's also a work-in-progress cookbook with unusual stuff: https://python-hunter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook.html