On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is not a good experience for users. Unless I'm missing something > (and I hope I am), this issue really can't be hand-waved away.
Make sure to understand that the way setuptools patches distutils makes it very sensible to any change made in distutils, even backward compatibles ones like in the 2.6 branch. But I won't freeze distutils work because of that, and distutils is not to be blamed if setuptools is broken, neither Python. Especially for a project that has not been maintained for over a year... So it's not a good experience for the users that's true, and we can try to enhance the Distribute documentation to help them as you suggested, and we are already helping because we've forked to try to provide some solutions. But there's nothing else I can think of to help people. My advice would be that the projects that use setuptools just switch asap on distribute, which is actively maintained. > -- > Ned Deily, > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! | 开源传万世，因有你参与 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
