Hello, Is there a blessed-as-stable, official, release of setuptools? Perhaps it's just me but a version number of the form '0.6c6' or '0.7a1' just doesn't seem like the developers think it is stable yet, even if it is being widely used. :-)
The reason I'm asking is that there is some debate going on at Enthought about whether we should make available an egg of setuptools in our 'stable' egg repository. My personal opinion is that we shouldn't be publishing binaries of sources and calling them 'stable' unless the developers of that source have said 'this version is stable' in some form. Said with a bit more detail, I think for us to call something stable, we need to start with stable source and then do testing to verify that our builds are being done correctly. So, I'd want someone to say publicly that 0.6c6 (or whatever version) is a stable release of the source before we say our build of that should go in our stable repository. However, there are others who think 'stable' just means that we've found, in our own testing, that things generally work as advertised and that really, our build process is building correctly. (I may be paraphrasing incorrectly, but since other Enthought-ers read this list, I'll trust them to correct me!) This would mean that we could put a binary of setuptools 0.7a1 up in our stable repo. Any thoughts? -- Dave _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
