On 6/20/12 11:05 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tarek Ziadé<ta...@ziade.org> wrote:
So I prefer to hold it and have a solid implementation in the stldib. The
only thing I am asking is to retain ourselves to do *anything* in distutils
and continue to declare it frozen, because I know it will be tempting to do
stuff there...
That policy has been a bit annoying. Gentoo has been carrying patches
forever to improve compilation with C++ stuff (mostly about correctly
passing on environment variables), and forward-porting them on every
release gets tedious, but the packaging/distutils2 effort has made it
harder to get them included in plain distutils. I understand there
shouldn't be crazy patching in distutils, but allowing it to inch
forward a little would make the lives of the Gentoo Python team
easier, at least.
Cheers,
If distutils gets new features I think it's killing the packaging effort.
Maybe these new features could be implemented in packaging, then bridged
in Distutils ?
the Compilation feature is isolated enough to do this.
In any case, I guess we should have some kind of policy in place where
we list the exceptions when distutils
can be changed.
Maybe in the packaging PEP ?
Cheers
Tarek
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