Chris Withers <chris <at> simplistix.co.uk> writes: > > Well, if this was the BDFL pronouncement that a lot of people have taken > it to be, does that allow Martin von Lewis to give the keys to > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools to the "distribute" developers, > so we can get on and use the original "setuptools" name without all the > confusion and hackery needed to make "distribute" work?
Er, perhaps this is a bit brutal? I don't think the BDFL has a right of life and death over third-party packages. I mean, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune, aren't we? WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- [snip] Regards Antoine. PS : > PS: I had thought that MvL couldn't help because of ez_setup.py, but > it's only buildout that appears foolish enough to have a hardcoded > download of: Some projects also have an SVN "externals" pointing to the setuptools SVN repository, as described here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/doc/ez_setup/index.html _______________________________________________ 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