Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes: > > If I fork setuptools to fix those problem, I will have to release it > under another name, > and ask people to change their setup.py file.
Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate a bit, but a distribution doesn't have to be named "setuptools" to provide a Python package named "setuptools" ;) > I think the solution is that Phillip bless someone that have time to > spend on it, > to work on fixing those problems in setuptools. It seems to be the issue here: PJE accepting to delegate maintenance to another person or group of people. This would be a reasonable attitude. Otherwise someone *will* have to fork it eventually... There's no third alternative, too many people are relying on it right now. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
