On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:21, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of >> a pure python description. Then people strongly objected. > > How many people objected? Would it be OK to only have support for this > in an external plugin, and not in stdlib?
These changes will go into Python current Distutils. You are welcome to help on enhancing this proposal. > > Again, this is of course only possible if the new distutils is called > something else, as we need backwards compatibility for a Very Long > Time if it continues to be called distutils. We are going to work as we said during the Summit : - make distutils lighter, and provide better/simpler ways to use it - include the good bits of setuptools in it - provide a backport for 2.5/2.6 as soon as 2.7 is out. I am changing my strategy. Since I am the current Distutils maintainer, I will take the role of 'packaging dictator' for Python 2.7. If you think I am missing some points (I am probably), You will need to complete the wiki pages or write a new page there explaining what you would like to see included in Distutils. But I will not work in flame-threads anymore on my side. Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
