On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: ... >>> - stop adding features so distutils2/packaging slowly takes over >> >> Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. Just understand that we're going >> to have to support old packages that import setuptools in their setup >> scripts indefinitely. That's one of the biggest challenges I see. >> Maybe packaging can (does?) provide a shim for this. > > As I said earlier, we do have backward compat in everything we do with > packages. That leads to ugly code in some places, but we have to. > > But as you said, there's the maturity problem...
OK, given the discussion, I guess the easiest course for buildout would be for buildout 2 to support just distribute next (to simplify the code) and then work on transitioning to packaging. Buildout 1 would largely stay as it is with bug fixes. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
