On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sebastien Douche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 13:49, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > announcing a fork without any objective? what is this fork about? > > Python community *must* have a robust, stable and well featured > infrastructure like Cpan, Gem or Apt. The actual situation is insane: > > - Setuptools is not on Python core I agree this is a shame. The boundary between setuptools and distutils is fuzzy. But if we build together a good tool, I guess it will be included at some point as a distutils replacement. > > - single point failure infrastructure (pypi.p.o) notice that there's a patch at this point that let setuptools use several indexes, it will be discussed for inclusion in Distribute 0.3 > > - not compatible with Hg / Bzr / Git out of the box > Notice that you can write a Manifest.in file to avoid it at this point > > - missing some features > > > As far I see, the goal is to speed up the development of a great tool, > not just a fork for fun :). > exactly ! > > > PS: within 1 month, Ubuntu 8.10 & Debian 4.2 are out (default svn : > 1.5). It's not acceptable to say "use trunk version, stupid!" > > > -- > Seb > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
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