On 06/19/2012 05:46 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:
Hi all,
We need to make a decision about the packaging module in Python 3.3.
Please read this message and breathe deeply before replying :)
...
With beta coming, a way to deal with that unfortunate situation needs to
be found. We could (a) grant an exception to packaging to allow changes
after beta1; (b) keep packaging as it is now under a provisional status,
with due warnings that many things are expected to change; (c) remove
the unstable parts and deliver a subset that works (proposed by Tarek to
the Pyramid author on distutils-sig); (d) not release packaging as part
of Python 3.3 (I think that was also suggested on distutils-sig last
month).
I think it'd be very wise to choose (d) here. We've lived so long
without a credible packaging story that waiting one (or even two) more
major release cycles isn't going to make a huge difference in the long
run but including a version of packaging now which gets fixed in a rush
would probably end up muddying the already dark waters of Python
software distribution.
- C
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