On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > What is the status of the third party module on PyPI (distutils2)? > Does it contain all fixes done in the packaging module? Does it have > exactly the same API? Does it support Python 2.5 to 3.3, or maybe also > 2.4? > > How is the distutils2 module installed? Installed manually? Using pip > or setuptools? Is distutils2 included in some Linux distributions? > > If it's simple to install distutils2, it's not a big deal to not have > it in the stdlib. > > -- > > It is sometimes a pain to have a buggy module in Python. For example, > I got a lot of issues with the subprocess module of Python 2.5. I > started to include a copy of the subprocess module from Python 2.7 in > my projects to workaround these issues. > > In my previous work we did also backport various modules to get the > last version of the xmlrpc client on Python 2.5 (especially for > HTTP/1.1, to not open a new TCP socket at each request). > > I don't want to reopen the discussion "the stdlib should be an > external project". I just want to confirm that it is better to wait > until important users of the packaging API have finished their work > (on porting their project to distutils2, especially pip), before we > can declare the module (and its API) as stable. > > By the way, what is the status of "pip using distutils2"? Some students started on a pip2 that was based on distutils2, but I don't think they've really done much/anything with actually using distutils2 and have mostly been working on other parts. > > Victor > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org (mailto:Python-Dev@python.org) > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald.stufft%40gmail.com > >
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