How do we handle that?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:25 PM Subject: Switching python-setuptools source to distribute To: distributi...@freedesktop.org Greetings all, this is mostly for the python packagers amongst you. In recent yesrs many python packages have come to rely on the setuptools module to build and install (and for some it's a runtime requirement as well). However, setuptools development is really a one-man show where that one man has been a bottleneck for development and bug fixing of the code. So, after many years of complaints and sporadic setuptools releases, a fork of the project named distribute was created. This fork installs into the same module name as the current setuptools package and the same API, transparently replacing it. It has an active group of core committers and has made several releases over the past few months. The lead on the project is also the new distutils maintainer in the pyhton stdlib and has expressed interest in making packaging python modules more compliant with the needs of Linux distributions (although the present release series aims to maintain compatiblity with setuptools, so there's only so much that can be done there.) Since setuptools is such a widely used module I'm wondering how other distributions are choosing to package setuptools/this fork. From a message on the distutils-sig mailing list I'm lead to believe that Gentoo's latest setuptools packages are distribute-based. I've just done the same for the development package in Fedora 13 (over six months away). Are other distributions moving in the same direction? Going to stick with the setuptools upstream? Work on making a parallel installable version? Or leaving it entirely up to their setuptools packager to make the decision? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute -Toshio _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list distributi...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions -- Mark Trompell Foresight Linux Xfce Edition Cause your desktop should be freaking cool (and Xfce)
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