On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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.
Is that a pronouncement? :) "GvR, the self-limiting BDFL." --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _______________________________________________ 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
