On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:55 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: [a whole bunch of stuff...]
Understood and I've observed the public portions of all of this. Much of it has not been pretty.
Personality conflicts aside, I wonder if it would be possible to move some portion of the base of both setuptools and Distribute to some sort of shared foundation.
That would reduce the amount of duplicate work that I can see coming out of this divergence and, perhaps, provide a basis on top of which setuptools and Distribute can continue to evolve.
This kind of "shared utility" project could, perhaps, be undertaken by someone that the two team leaders both know and trust and could become a shared resource instead of having the two teams competing for the extremely valuable (and severely limited) pool of people you would trust to work on this.
The thing that has bothered me for years is that, while the code that's being installed is generally of higher quality in the Python world, the tools for doing so in the Ruby world have pulled ahead and now do a better job of installing code that's not as good.
Unfortunately, that can give the Ruby solution a visible head start that often times can't be overcome in the minds of management, regardless of the relative quality of the resultant products.
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