On 2009-10-12, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Reinout van Rees <rein...@vanrees.org> writes: > >> Time for the BDFL to flip some ownership bits for setuptools in pypi. > > You appear to think the BDFL has powers outside the Python language and > extending to third-party projects that are independent. > > Regardless of what I think of Setuptools or Distribute, I definitely am > *very* glad the Python BDFL does not have the power to make a change to > a third-party project as you're suggesting.
I just read the rest of the thread on python dev. Yes, I should probably be glad it did not happen. OTOH, grumbl ... horrible breakage ... essential piece of infrastructure ... allowed to persist.... I'm pretty grumpy right now. Reinout -- Reinout van Rees - rein...@vanrees.org - http://reinout.vanrees.org Software developer at http://www.thehealthagency.com "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets" _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
