Just FYI : I am post-poning the revert of Distutils to 2.6.x right after 2.7a4 has been tagged to avoid any problems (this is in 3 days)
The revert is ready but 3 days is not long enough to make sure everything is going smooth. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > This is a follow-up of the Pycon summit + sprints on packaging. > > This is what we have planned to do: > > 1. refactor distutils in a new standalone version called distutils2 > [this is done already and we are actively working in the code] > 2. completely revert distutils in Lib/ and Doc/ so the code + doc is > the same than the current 2.6.x branch > 3. leave the new sysconfig module, that is used by the Makefile and > the site module > > The rest of the work will happen in distutils2 and we will try to > release a version asap for Python 2.x and 3.x (2.4 to 3.2), and the > goal > is to put it back in the stdlib in Python 3.3 > > Distutils in Python will be feature-frozen and I will only do bug > fixes there. All feature requests will be redirected to Distutils2. > > I think the easiest way to manage this for me and for the feedback of > the community is to add in bugs.python.org a "Distutils2" component, > so I can > start to reorganize the issues in there and reassign new issues to > Distutils2 when it applies. > > Regards > Tarek > > -- > Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org > -- 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
