On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, kiorky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tarek, > > Tarek Ziadé a écrit : > >> The *whole* point of Distribute 0.6.x is to be backward compatible, meaning >> that if virtualenv switch to it, you will not even notice it. > > Living in my 0.6.x snail sandbox is not a solution. > As it seems that Distribute 0.7 won't for a long time. > > "setuptools based" packages will be able to be installed via the distribute > 0.6 > branch but not compatible with "distribute based" stuff. Note that new things > will eventually be packaged with the "new good way todo, aka with 0.7". There > is > a great risk that they can't live together aside. NOGO
Why they can't ? > > 0.7 packages wont be compatibles with setuptools installation/namespaces, so > it > will be impossible to install a lot of "setuptools based" packages aside with > new stuff in with this way too. NOGO too. Why will it be impossible ? [...] > I appreciate what you folks are doing with the distribute sphere, i have not > that much problems with it, but i do not support that it breaks very badly the > retro compatibilty for all things already packaged today, today tomorrow or in > one year. Again, you will be able to use 0.6 and 0.7 together. or 0.6 alone, or 0.7 alone. Nothing will be broken in a distribution that uses 0.6. 0.6 stays maintained. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
