On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
I asked this earlier, but didn't see a response. Is the freeze stated somewhere like in a PEP? If not, can someone state it precisely (e.g. what's allowed to change and what's not)? Thanks, --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
