Hi, I'm planning to make a port for Distribute to make it more accessible to users. However, thinking about up coming 0.7 release, which will break the compatibility with setuptools, I started wondering it's not so easy to make a package for distribute.
If I understand correctly, Distutils 0.7 is like Python 3.x in some ways. It breaks compatibility and 0.7 and 0.6 both will continue to be developed in parallel at least a year or so. That sounds great but we can't have two versions of a Python module at the same time. Take a Jinja and Jinja2 for example. It has to have different names to make both package available at the same systen at the same time. For Distribute, there would be a few options to work around this: 1) Make 0.6 and 0.7 different package, like Distribute and Distribute2 (Jinja like solution) 2) Make 0.7 fat package, which includes 0.6(setuptools compat) features as deprecated. *) YOUR IDEAS COME HERE. Is there anyone having any other solutions? And what actually Distribute developers are thinking about this problem? # I heard Gentoo provides Distribute as setuptools but I think it's rather rude Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
