At 01:12 PM 10/3/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>At 10:26 AM 10/3/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >>>0.6 should be marked >>>final. >> >>This is coming soon, but I want to finish some ez_setup >>improvements first. There will be a "known issues" list to cover >>things like the incomplete/broken FTP support; I've given up on >>trying to keep hacking it into 0.6. > >I wonder what "this" you are referring to.
"0.6 should be marked final." >>> Is it on the table to remove features from setuptools? >> >>Yes - and most are *already* removed from the 0.7 trunk. That was >>the main reason for the branch. > >I'm confused on a number of counts. Is the 0.7 "trunk" the same as >the setuptools trunk? Is there also a branch for 0.7? > >Is there a list of removed features somewhere? Do we get any input? Yes, no, no, and maybe, respectively. :) >"Grand" is simply the impression I had. The list of features above >is extensive though. Some of the items seem fairly big, or maybe I >just can't tell what they are. Do you plan to try to get all of them >into the next feature release? They'll probably all appear over the course of a long string of alphas. I don't have a detailed implementation plan yet. The current status of setuptools is basically this: my initial creation was to scratch various distutils-related itches. After OSAF became my client, my distutils-related itches got a lot bigger. :) OSAF funding got it to where it is today, but for all practical purposes both mine and OSAF's itches are fairly-well scratched, so I don't have much call to work on it these days -- I spend more time *supporting* it than working on it. And OSAF's goals for the next year or so will likely not justify much in the way of focused development. So, unless I end up with other client(s) who have setuptools-related needs, I'm unlikely to have much time available for setuptools development in the next year. I could probably knock out everything but the biggest 0.7 features in a month, if that was all I had to work on. But the odds of that month being one of the next 12 on the calendar seems slim right now. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
