On Jul 29, 2013, at 5:38 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote:
> There are >1000 times more people using python packaging tools than > there are ones following the recent distutils-sig/Donald/Nick verdicts > or tool release notes. And heck, even for me being quite involved in all > this stuff, having written a related PEP, it's really hard to see what's > coming and to prevent breakage for my tools's/projects's users. > Therefore, to be honest, at this point i am almost afraid of what is > released/deployed next in PyPI/Installer land. I'd rather like to > get into a "can't wait to get the next release" mode. I'd also like to point out this. I think you got bitten by one particular backward incompatibility and are "Once bitten twice shy". I had a number people asking me near every day how long until pip 1.4 was coming out because they were excited for the new changes including the improved pre-release handling. I've personally gotten or seen more complaints over the naming of a variable in the config file then I have over any changes we've made. The runner up to that is the fallout from switching to requiring verified SSL. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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