> Does Trent Mick still work for ActiveState? If not, could someone else > tell us anything about the timetable for replacing the deleted PyPPM > functionality?
Bob, Apologies for letting your question slide unanswered! Yes, I am still here. Currently there is no real timetable. The current state of distutils and PyPI are such that a PyPPM-like tool is not tractable without high ongoing maintenance costs. The lack of strong maintenance and development of distutils doesn't help. Ideally we would like to work on the distutils and PyPI (or related) projects to make a PyPPM-like tool more possible but, unfortunately, that isn't something I can assign to a firm schedule. Distutils seems to have hit a steady state where it is good enough for package maintainers to create something users can track down and install. That "good enough" makes it difficult to make a business case for a PyPPM-like tool. Trent -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
