On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:52:41PM +0000, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > > How hard would it be to rewrite distribute to use a common language > > > subset instead of relying on 2to3? > > I did this months ago, when doing PEP 405 venv development was getting > old fast because of the 2to3 delay: > > https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/distribute3 > > It's been mentioned on this list, but none of the distribute maintainers > appear to have picked up on it.
I filed an upstream issue to bring it to their attention: https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/356/installation-of-distribute-is-slow-on > It's been a short while (10 Jan 2013) since I synchronised with the > main repo, but it typically doesn't take all that long to do. > > All the tests pass whenever I merge upstream changes, but I'm not sure > how much confidence the maintainers have about test coverage and > whether all tests passing means enough for them to release into the > wild. Marius Gedminas -- C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. -- Dennis M. Ritchie
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