On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
distutils in stdlib seems like this foundation. I'm not sure it would be beneficial to inject another layer (and therefore dependency) between distutils and setuptools/distribute, but will defer that judgment to the maintainers involved in the 3 projects (distutils, setuptools, and distribute). I think everyone would prefer only setuptools or distribute to survive in the long term as the current situation is less than ideal from a technical and social standpoint. When one of these projects ultimately deprecates the other, any shared foundation they created would be reduced to needless complexity and cruft. But I'm just a user/observer like yourself, so someone with a bit more authority might want to chime in. :-) HTH, Michael Schurter _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
