The wheel strategy has just been to implement the peps in setuptools and in pkg_resources. It is nearly effortless to do so since the PEPs are so similar to the existing system of eggs. Plus you get to play with it using 900 * 1.6 ** (year-2005) packages.
Afterwards, with binary packages, you can deprecate the distutils build system. You still have to build package with distutils forever, but it doesn't matter as much because you don't have to do it on your production machine. When a particular package has trouble with distutils, you tell them to choose among a healthy ecosystem of superior build systems rather than trying to add features to distutils. Are we trying to kill setuptools? I'm not entirely sure, but we should stop trying to do that. The migration should take essentially forever as soon as it makes sense for each pypi publisher. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
