On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:15:37 +0200 Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > > > On top of this, the goal of lots of efforts around packaging is to allow > > people to move away from distutils/setuptools, as the underlying design is > > fundamentally difficult to extend. > > If the underlying design is fundamentally difficult to extend, what should be > done? > > Build tools on top of it? I guess this is not a good idea. > > Or start from scratch and deprecate the current underlying design in the > future?
Providing official hooks would be a way to provide extension facilities. Of course this assumes someone would actually maintain distutils, and "the community" would stop making a ruckus everytime an extremely minor behaviour change is considered (otherwise you get what happened to distutils2). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
