[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 7/29/20 10:14 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2020-07-30 07:17:03 +0530 (+0530), Pradyun Gedam wrote: TL;DR: OK to archive this mailing list? Reply by Aug 30th. [...] I find it disappointing that there will no longer be a mailing list for discussions of Python packaging. Web forums with some

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-07-30 07:17:03 +0530 (+0530), Pradyun Gedam wrote: > TL;DR: OK to archive this mailing list? Reply by Aug 30th. [...] I find it disappointing that there will no longer be a mailing list for discussions of Python packaging. Web forums with some E-mail integration are hardly the same. But

[Distutils] Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-29 Thread Pradyun Gedam
TL;DR: OK to archive this mailing list? Reply by Aug 30th. Below: Context, Proposal, Reasoning, and timeline. *Context*: For multiple years now, we've been advising users to use setuptools and to move away from using distutils. There has been a long standing plan [^1] to vendor distutils into