On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> If I fork setuptools to fix those problem, I will have to release it >> under another name, >> and ask people to change their setup.py file. > > Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate a bit, but a distribution doesn't have > to > be named "setuptools" to provide a Python package named "setuptools" ;)
Yes, so this will somehow overwrite an existing installation of setuptools > >> I think the solution is that Phillip bless someone that have time to >> spend on it, >> to work on fixing those problems in setuptools. > > It seems to be the issue here: PJE accepting to delegate maintenance to > another > person or group of people. This would be a reasonable attitude. +1 > > Otherwise someone *will* have to fork it eventually... There's no third > alternative, too many people are relying on it right now. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
