Am 20.06.2012 12:39, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:30:51 +0200 > Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: >> >> > >> > Most of the distutils2 improvements (new PEPs, setup.cfg, etc.) were >> > totally possible in distutils, weren't they? >> I started there, remember ? And we ended up saying it was impossible to >> continue without >> breaking the packaging world. > > "we" were only certain people, AFAIR.
Yes. The people willing to work on packaging in Python, to be exact. >> why would you expect a different datapoint ? > > I wasn't expecting a different datapoint, I'm pointing that shipping > packaging in the stdlib would provide a much better exposure. But not if it's not ready for prime time. (And providing the finished distutils2 for Python 2 will provide even better exposure at the moment.) Georg _______________________________________________ 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
