> Is it their goal to supplant setuptools, or has it already been > decided by the Python community? Though there's been grumbling for a > while, the official fork seeks rather recent.
Yes, they're looking to replace setuptools, and the Python community (particularly Guido) seems to be behind them. I think Tarek Ziade (the guy in charge of Distribute) volunteered to start trying to clean up the current mess with Python packaging at the last PyCon, and this is the result. They don't want to fork -- the issue is that the guy in charge of setuptools is generally too busy to work on it, but doesn't want to hand over the rights to any of the folks who want to be working on it, for various reasons. It's much messier than that, of course, but it looks like Distribute is going to be the way of the future for Python distribution. > I don't think there's > any hurry, at this point I'd say we should just wait and see. If > Distribute becomes the standard that setuptools is now, I'd imagine > we'll ship it. > I agree -- I think that when the time comes that someone needs to update our setuptools spkg for some reason, they'll discover that the only option is to switch to Distribute. Until then, though, there's probably no reason to mess with it -- in particular, Python 3 is still far off in our future. -cc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
