At 12:50 PM 7/19/2009 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:13:25 -0700, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]>
wrote:
2009/7/19 P.J. Eby <[email protected]>:
I'm actually kind of hoping that if I make Discovery nice enough,
somebody
else will refactor setuptools to use it. ;-) (Or just replace
setuptools
with something better.)
We hope that too. But we don't think Discovery will be nice enough if
only you work on it. That is after all the greatness of open source:
It enables people from all around the world cooperate to make
something much greater than each one can create by himself. We can
sure use your experience, insight and help. And you can use our work
time. Discovery can become way greater if we work together instead of
each by ourself.
+1
I'm already sensing some vague inconvenience .. distutils, setuptools,
Distribute, Discovery??? Too much for a language that boasts about having
only one obvious way to do it.
Is it not sensible to combine the efforts put into Distribute and
Discovery? Call Discovery 'Distribute 2.0' (future work) while we work on
stabilizing setuptools as Distribute 1.0?
If it was me - I'd certainly do it and that wouldn't jeopardize the
potential fun involved.
Already, just this bit where strangers on the internet discuss how I
should spend my spare time for their benefit is making the whole idea
less fun. If people want to tell me how I should spend my time, they
can pay me. (Otherwise, they can ask nicely, instead of lecturing.)
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