On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> - Implementing and maintaining packaging code isn't really all that >> interesting to me and, I'd hazard to guess, to anyone else on the >> buildout team. Buildout has more packaging code than I ever wanted >> to write. It does largely because it needed policies and features >> not provided by easy_install. (This is not meant to disparage >> easy_install, which was a ground-breaking tool.) > > If you can enumerate what buildout needs or wants from a packaging tool that > would be useful to keep in mind going forward.
Great idea. I'll do that. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
