On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > Le 03/02/2013 07:48, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> I vote for removing the "distutils is frozen" principle. > I’ve also been thinking about that. There have been two exceptions to > the freeze, for ABI flags in extension module names and for pycache > directories. When the stable ABI was added and MvL wanted to change > distutils (I don’t know to do what exactly), Tarek stood firm on the > freeze and asked for any improvement to go into distutils2, and after > MvL said that he would not contibute to an outside project, we merged d2 > into the stdlib. Namespace packages did not impact distutils either. > Now that we’ve removed packaging from the stdlib, we have two Python > features that are not supported in the standard packaging system, and I > agree that it is a bad thing for our users. > > I’d like to propose a reformulation of the freeze:
This could be common knowledge, but is the current formulation of the freeze spelled out somewhere? --Chris _______________________________________________ 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
