Re: [Python-Dev] The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-03-03 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Just FYI : I am post-poning the revert of Distutils to 2.6.x right after 2.7a4 has been tagged to avoid any problems (this is in 3 days) The revert is ready but 3 days is not long enough to make sure everything is going smooth. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > Th

Re: [Python-Dev] The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-02-28 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 14:15, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > [..] > > I assume you want the Distutils2 component to auto-assign to you like > > Distutils currently does? If so I can add the component for you if people > > don't object to the new com

Re: [Python-Dev] The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-02-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: [..] > I assume you want the Distutils2 component to auto-assign to you like > Distutils currently does? If so I can add the component for you if people > don't object to the new component. Sounds good -- Thanks ___

Re: [Python-Dev] The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-02-26 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:44, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > This is a follow-up of the Pycon summit + sprints on packaging. > > This is what we have planned to do: > > 1. refactor distutils in a new standalone version called distutils2 > [this is done already and we are actively working in the

[Python-Dev] The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7

2010-02-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello, This is a follow-up of the Pycon summit + sprints on packaging. This is what we have planned to do: 1. refactor distutils in a new standalone version called distutils2 [this is done already and we are actively working in the code] 2. completely revert distutils in Lib/ and Doc/ so the cod