Guido van Rossum wrote:
Yeah, but *is* dropping backward compatibility an option here?
I'm not sure the concept of backward compatibility makes sense here. The only kind of distutils replacement I would be interested in would have a completely different API, completely different structure and completely different implementation. Anything less would fail to fix the problems we want to fix. Given that, what would it even *mean* for the new tool to be backward compatible with distutils?
The same might be happen to distutils 2 in a few years. You are going to have to plan making it more maintainable.
A modular structure with an easy-to-follow implementation would certainly be part of the plan, I hope. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
