Phillip J. Eby wrote:
I think Ian's already said this, but the API itself has to do something more, and so far nobody's proposed an API that does anything "more" than what setuptools does in this area, from the developer point of view. (Except for the request that such an API be in the stdlib and thus avoid an extra dependency... but that of course introduces yet another implementation delay, if it means a new release of Python.)
It's probably a bit easier than waiting for a release of Python -- if it's in a PEP, and will be in a release of Python, then the library will be blessed and people will pick it up much more quickly. Realistically most library developers would need to add the package as a requirement for some time, since they won't stop supporting older versions of Python that don't have that package.
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