2009/6/30 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > And is there consensus outside of it? (Remember the ipaddr debacle. > It's easy for people to miss an important PEP.)
My impression (as someone who does read the distutils SIG, but in all honesty has very little practical interest in distutils internals): - It's very focused on distutils internals. If it has an impact on end users (as opposed to packagers), it's very hard to discern. The only hint of such a thing is the mention of an uninstall function. But it's only an API. So still no end user impact [1] :-( - The terminology and focus feels setuptools-inspired (my apologies if that's not the case). Expect pushback from setuptools haters... - It's quite dense for the casual reader not familiar with the terminology. I've never managed to read the whole thing through, personally. I'd suggest two things: - Add a section to the PEP describing the purely end user impact of the changes - Post that to python-list, with a note pointing to the PEP for people who care about distutils details If that gets no feedback, you've done as much as you can. Paul. [1] I'd actually like it if the PEP defined an uninstall command - something like "python -m distutils.uninstall packagename". It can be as minimalist as you like, but I'd like to see it present. _______________________________________________ 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
