On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > I would argue that the Python community has a wealth of people quite > capable of taking on this particular task, and if it makes the core > architecture and maintenance of ‘distutils’ simpler to remove special > cases for binary installers, I think that's a pearl of great price. I think there are two points making binary installers pluggable, so that they are independent of a core distutils, and including such plugins in the stdlib. Nobody argues against the first case: that's certainly a common complain that distutils is a big ball of code where everything is intervened. Concerning contribution for windows binaries: as the current numpy developer in charge of windows binaries and windows support for a while, my experience is that the windows situation for contribution is very different from the other platforms. The mentality is just different. At the risk of an overly broad and unfair generalization, my experience is that on windows, people just want things to work, complain when they do not, and almost never contribute back to make it work, or when they do, they are almost never familiar with how things work on other platforms, so they suggest broken fixes. To say it differently: I mostly use Linux, the less time I am on windows, the happier I am, but bdist_wininst is the only distutils bdist_* command I care about. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
