On 13 Nov, 2012, at 17:21, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:10:30 +0100, > Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> a écrit : >> >> On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I want to remove distutils from the standard library. >> >> Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages. >> It could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more >> useable, although patches for that would run into the self-imposed >> freeze of distutils development. > > It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to start a project named > "distutils2" to build the next-generation distutils library. > > Oops :-) Or carefully enhance distutils itself. Rewriting distutils in one go seems to be too ambitious with the limited resources available to do so. Ronald _______________________________________________ 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
