2010/12/2 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: > Am 02.12.2010 22:54, schrieb Michael Foord: >> On 02/12/2010 21:39, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>>> 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. >> >> What situation worse? > > The "distutils is unmaintained" situation. It's not only unmaintained > now, but proposed improvements are rejected without consideration, on > the grounds that they are changes.
I welcome those changes in Distutils2. That's the whole point. _______________________________________________ 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
