Le 02/12/2010 23:17, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > Before the freeze, distutils was unmaintained (i.e. before you started > maintaining it), but people who want to improve it gradually atleast > could. Now gradual improvements are also banned, so it's not only > unmaintained, but I can't even provide support for the PEP in Python > that was just accepted.
I wonder what your definition of “unmaintained” is. Tarek has been fixing bugs for two years, and recently I have been made a committer to assist him. It’s true that I’ve not been as active as I would have liked*, but I did fix some bugs, as I think you know, given that you’ve helped me in some reports. Sure, distutils is not as well-maintained as other modules, but a dozen bugs have been fixed by five or six of us since the revert. I do feel responsible for all 116 remaining bugs, and intend to address all of them. * This is partly normal, since I had warned before I was accepted as a committer that my time would be scarce for a year, partly due to the fact that I also do bug triage, doc work and patch reviews, and partly due to some personal problems with focusing. On the matter of freeze exceptions, there have been two: - reading the makefile with surogateescape error handler so that python can build with an ASCII locale in a non-ASCII path (haypo, #6011) - handle soabiflags (barry, #9807). I took part in the discussion before those changes and did not object to them: they are very small changes that enable a new feature of Python 3.2. Maybe I should have requested Tarek’s approval for those changes; he knows better than me how third parties may break because of changes that don’t seem to break anything. Regards _______________________________________________ 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
