On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > Chris Withers schrieb: >> Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> I'm saying that I don't expect setuptools 0.7 to appear before Tarek's >>> Distribute is mature and in widespread use. IOW I support Tarek's fork >>> and suggest nobody hold their breath waiting for setuptools 0.7. >> >> 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? > > That's absurd. There's a certain area where Guido can make pronouncements, > but third-party packages is not it. Even if they're hosted on python.org > infrastructure.
Right. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
