On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Andreas Jung wrote:
--On 25. September 2008 12:31:40 -0400 "Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Personally, I would rather see not a "fork", but development of an
entirely new disutils replacement, and then not worry at all about
backward compatibility at the setup.py level. Apart from the
pkg_resources module, I would treat setuptools and distutils as
legacy
infrastructure, and explore better ways to build and manage
distributions
(including eggs).
We can not restart with something completely different or new. Such
an approach would be totally unacceptable due to the huge amount of
existing modules having switched to setuptools. Setuptools or an
improved codefork must be the tools for managing distibutions in
Python.
I would be willing to start with something new if and only if it was
adopted as part of Python.
Jim
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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation
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