> I was told not to touch to Distutils code to avoid any regression > since it's patched to the bones in third party products. So we decided > to freeze distutils and add all new features in Distutils2, which is > at alpha stage now. So this move seems contradictory to me.
I think it was a bad decision to freeze distutils, and "we" certainly didn't make that (not any we that includes me, that is). This freeze made the situation worse. IIRC, it was really the incompatible changes that made people ask you to stop changing distutils. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
