On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote:
> y the persons that you know do not have time to maintain it should > be allowed to do so, That has put us through a lot of unnecessary > pain, just because you are not willing to let go of something you no > longer are willing to maintain. > > I which we somehow could get control over the setuptools name on PyPI. > Setuptools is dead, you are not interested in maintaining it, we > should in fact not need to rename it at all. > Setuptools is dead, but the fork should be named something else just to show that development doesn't have anything to do with the way setuptools and is in fact a new and live project. People that were burned by setuptools should give distribute a new chance. What should happen is that distribute (or redbarrel or disttools) should provide a distribute-setuptools package that is just a module that import distribute and is transparent to other packages that want to continue to "import setuptools". -- Leonardo Santagada
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