2009/6/30 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Nick Coghlan<ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>>> If no one objects, I'd like to push PEP 376 in the "accepted" status >>>> and go ahead with its implementation, >>>> with continuous feedback at Distutils-SIG as we did to build it. >>> >>> I think this isn't quite the process. In the past, every PEP required >>> BDFL pronouncement, which you should now seek. >> >> Agreed. While Guido is highly likely to just accept the distutils-sig >> consensus on something like this, that doesn't eliminate the need for >> him to actually *say* that he is approving the PEP on that basis. > > Sure. :-) > > So what *is* the distutils-sig consensus?
The consensus is to have one and only one way to install distributions in Python, and a way to retrieve information on installed distributions, and their files. > > And is there consensus outside of it? (Remember the ipaddr debacle. > It's easy for people to miss an important PEP.) I am not sure who you are thinking about, I am blogging a lot on the topic and I am trying to get key players involved in this, like os packagers etc. We've built this PEP in respect with existing tools like setuptools, etc, and I am sending mails at python-dev to make sure evereyone involved in python development has a chance to provide some feedback, > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ 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
