On 7/29/20 10:14 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2020-07-30 07:17:03 +0530 (+0530), Pradyun Gedam wrote:
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I find it disappointing that there will no longer be a mailing list
for discussions of Python packaging. Web forums with some
On 2020-07-30 07:17:03 +0530 (+0530), Pradyun Gedam wrote:
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I find it disappointing that there will no longer be a mailing list
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integration are hardly the same. But
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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