2009/7/7 Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: >> - PEP 376 is an opportunity to consider cleanup >> - there are some strong supporters of keeping things >> setuptools-compatible > > Your implication seems to be that these two are incompatible. It should > be noted that it's possible to clean up, by having a separate (e.g. > ‘.pydist’) directory as the new standard, with “cleaned up” standard > content, and continue backward compatibility in the actual tools while > deprecating the old ‘.egg-info’ format for some time until finally > removing that support.
Phillip argued strongly against this. I'm not going to repeat his arguments - they seemed to make sense to me at the time, but I haven't internalised them well enough that I'd be willing to try to repeat them here. The crux of all this seems to be setuptools' backwards compatibility issues, As someone who has a very strong dislike of setuptools (the implementation, not the ideas), I'm trying very, very hard to leave it to someone else to say "stuff setuptools, this is a core distutils proposal, setuptools can keep up or die" :-) Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
