At 10:54 PM 9/24/2008 +0200, Christophe Combelles wrote:
there are a LOT of other improvements that are already wanted, such
as support for other (d)vcs,
See:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=524
and:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=setuptools&submit=search
not to mention:
http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue42
...especially my comments on what the existing patch still needs in
order to be accepted.
an easy_uninstall, etc...
http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue21 is tracking this, but I
have not reviewed the submitted patch in any detail. It would be
much better to have a design proposal to review first.
Note, by the way, that the reason most of the items listed as
"feature" or "wish" on the tracker are in those statuses are because
nobody has proposed a design for critique. Usually, it's just wishes
for magic ponies (e.g. uninstall, post-install hooks, etc.) without
any discussion of how to deal with the edge cases, interactions, or
other negative consequences of said features. (magic pony manure?)
I sincerely hope that things will speed-up with this fork.
I imagine they might speed up, but likely at the cost of
stability. If anybody knew enough to be able to add these features
in a safe way, then they knew enough to be able to contribute patches
to setuptools (after first proposing how they would handle all the
nasty edge cases).
In principle, I have no problems with a fork. In practice,
however, I would expect significant new features (e.g. uninstall) to
be accompanied by a significant decrease in stability.
In other words, I don't recommend mixing fork goals. If the goal is
merely to have more-frequent releases of setuptools, it would be
better to have a snapshot facility for same, and release dev-tagged
eggs. Conversely, if the goal is to prototype new features, then it
doesn't make a lot of sense to advertise it as a stable or up-to-date
setuptools.
So, my personal hope is that the persons doing the fork will make it
clear to their users which it is: unstable feature prototype, or
simple release snapshots? (Where the latter could just as easily be
automated.)
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