2009/11/29 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: [..] > > WSGI and setuptools have been widely adopted in spite of their technical and > ideological flaws, because they had good incentive engineering. > > Or, in other words, because practicality beats purity, every single time.
Do you mean here that this independently-created standard, this good incentive engeneering a.k.a. Setuptools, is doomed not to evolve anymore ? e.g. to adapt its standard to a common standard that is going to raise and be added in stldib at some point ? That's not what Distribute will aim at. We will want to provide the compatibility bridge for people that uses setuptools API to adopt the upcoming standards. And if this happen in Python 2.7, that might be a simple flag : use_stdlib_standard = True IOW third party software should adapt themselves to Python and its stdlib, through deprecations etc., not the contrary. Regards, Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
