Hello, (Following Ronald's mail about porting setuptools to Py3k (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-June/012108.html) and Lennart's effort for that too)
Since setuptools doesn't exist yet under Python 3, I think we can simplify the "porting to Py 3k" problem by starting a python 3 only version for the Distribute project and flip our porting problems into the other way. Here's my proposal, after 0.6 is released : - Let's start a "0.8" branch right now, by removing all the bootstraping code and by splitting and renaming all elements right away. The setuptools package will be renamed in something else, the pkg_resources.py module and easy_install script too. Those will be three distinct distributions. To use them, people will have to change their import lines, and install_requires lines. - Let's then backport the 0.8 version into a 0.7 version, compatbile with Python 2.x and with the required bootstraping so it works in 2.x environments We might end up with a very ugly 0.7, but who cares this would boosts Python 3 adoption imho Opinions ? Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
