On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:46:30 -0400 Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > > 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 don’t think (a) would give us enough time; we really want a few > months (and releases) to hash out the API (most notably with the pip and > buildout developers) and clean the bdist situation. Likewise (c) would > require developer (my) time that is currently in short supply. (b) also > requires time and would make development harder, not to mention probable > user pain. This leaves (d), after long reflection, as my preferred > choice, even though I disliked the idea at first (and I fully expect > Tarek to feel the same way).
So if you want to remove packaging from 3.3, it should be before the beta which will be out in a few days. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
