On Monday, 05 October, 2009, at 11:53AM, "Lennart Regebro" <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >2009/10/5 Jeff Rush <j...@taupro.com>: >> Very unfortunate, as in, it should NOT have happened. And *especially* >> without any announcement on python.org or mention on the >> python-committers list of something this major. > >Well "this major"... It's a bug fix that breaks a setuptools monkey-patch. >But yes, it was discovered before release, and maybe it should have >been discussed, I'm not on python-dev anymore.
I agree with Jeff that this shouldn't have happened, or should at the very least have been documented in the release notes for 2.6.3. I know of several users of Python that have been bitten by this (they installed 2.6.3 and now easy_install doesn't work anymore for them). For beginners this issue is a showstopper that they cannot resolve without help. > > >> Distribute is very new and there are many folk who will not be adopting >> it until it has been out for quite some time. > >Nobody will adopt it until they are forced to. This unfortunate bug >means people are forced to quicker than expected. I don't think that's >an actual problem. This is a problem, it means 2.6.3 is not a simple drop-in replacement for 2.6.2 but requires the replacement of another component as well. That can be a problem in organizations with strict configuration management where you cannot install new software without going to lots of red tape (and that might involve lawyers when you install a new package instead of upgrading an existing one). Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
