On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > > Tarek, > > I wouldn't take "feedback" as all bad.... > > Indirectly, it seems like you are telling people not to report their > experience. Indirectly, it seems like you are discouraging thinking > about what could be done to improve things.
I am encouraging people to work with the people that have started to work on various topics durong Pycon > > Here, we have a popular saying "Nothing ever gets fixed if people > don't complain." > > A roadmap is a good idea... > > I think distutils needs one... > The rough roadmap was expressed during pycon main page : http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils main topics: - have a standard version comparison API - http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistutilsVersionFight - standardize egg-info: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StandardizeEggInfo - finalize the new PEP 345 - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Metadata - work on the static metadata concept - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StaticMetadata - work on extendding commands - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/ManifestPluginSystem/Draft > David > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:34:06 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Remainder about Distutils: >> >> - we did a summit at Pycon about distutils >> - some people started to work on various tasks (PEPs, etc) >> >> Can everyone here who says "distutils sucks" "setuptools sucks", >> "let's rewrite them from scratch" hear that: >> >> Just join the work in progress, help on the PEP, uses cases, and stop >> whining about the situation !!!! >> >> Thank you >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
