At 04:43 PM 4/6/2009 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 16:04, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> I don't understand why you're so anxious to deprecate something without
> first understanding what it's for.

If nobody understands it, that is in itself reason to replace it with
something people understand.

I mean understanding the use cases and how distutils features are used in the field. Deprecating something that people do understand and use, simply because you don't understand or use it, is not responsible stewardship for a stdlib package, IMO.

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