On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:42 AM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: >>> At 10:50 AM 7/1/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>>> >>>> It's precisely because Ubuntu is a good distribution that they decided >>>> to switch to distribute to get the most active project in it. >>> >>> Really? I would've thought that the most *stable* version of a project >>> would generally be the better choice for an operating system distribution. >>> ;-) >> >> It's a better choice than setuptools, which is unmaintained for two >> years with pending bugfixes. > > It is again obviously wrong, since setuptools works and distribute > does not for my use case. > > I am not sure how to put this more clearly: if you pretend to be a > piece of software you are not, you better have to work for 100 % cases > of the old one. Not 90 %, not 99 %. Anything short of 100 % is > unacceptable. > > If you can't guarantee 100 % compatibility, you don't force people to > use your software instead of another one, I don't understand how I > even have to explain this, really.
What's unacceptable right now is your tone. I am going to ask you to stop this now. What is your problem ? a bug seems to have been fixed in setuptools and was not backported in distribute. That was a miss we are going to fix. Like all software, there are bugs, regressions, etc. You made a patch, great, it'll be pushed. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
