-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/2013 08:09 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> I'm sure it is perfectly possible to evolve and bugfix distutils > without breaking distribute. What's more, distribute is actually > maintained and can evolve to accomodate the fixes. I wouldn't be on that proposition: there are a lot of burnouts down that rabbit hole. > As for setuptools (as opposed to distribute), I don't think we should > care anymore. Yes, you need to care. It is *still* true today that distribute and setuptools remain largely interchangeable, which is the only thing that makes distribute viable, in the ecosystem sense. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEOZakACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5N7ACgv/v0GTs7xyQ7I/jvrcu/s2i5 kHcAoJUKigWKZTiVr1ARMLt2xtQF+TAL =mjAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
