Thank you for the details. Andi..
On Jun 29, 2011, at 19:37, Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > >> Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Sigh. The setuptools story is getting worse. >> >>> I wonder how the >>> 'distribute' project is doing... It's the solution I used for the >>> Python 3.1 jcc port I did last summer. In particular, I wonder if they >>> integrated my patch, for that issue 43 I filed like four years ago. >> >> The way forward is "packaging" <http://docs.python.org/dev/packaging/> >> (which I believe is also "distutils2"). This is the derivation of >> "distribute". > > Just watched the PyCon talk on this: "packaging" is the Python 3.3+ name, > "distutils2" is the Python 2 name. Same codebase and APIs, as much as > possible. > >> See http://guide.python-distribute.org/_images/state_of_packaging.jpg, >> in >> http://guide.python-distribute.org/introduction.html#current-state-of-packaging. >> >> ``So basically, I have forked Distutils and renamed its package into >> Distutils2. The project is located in http://hg.python.org/distutils2 >> and the goal is to put it back into the standard library as soon as it >> reaches a state where it starts to be used by the community. Distutils >> will just die slowly, probably pulling Setuptools and Distribute with >> it.'' >> >> ``The Distribute project is still important because it can help us >> releasing bug fixes or Python 3 support things today.'' >> >> ``Distutils2 will be 2.4 to 3.2 compatible and will get back from >> Distribute the good bits and implement the PEPs that were accepted >> lately PEP 345 and PEP 386.'' >> >>> Do you know if there is a way to detect this special version of >>> setuptools? >> >> No, sorry. >> >> Bill >> >>> If so, I could ensure the patch is applied if still needed. >>> >>> Andi.. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Bill
