2009/10/5 Jeremy Sanders <jer...@jeremysanders.net>: > As a general question, is there any planned project to improve the state of > distutils or replace it? It appears to be one of the weakest parts of the > Python system and needs replacing with something much cleaner, better > documented and more powerful.
Tarek's working on enhancements to distutils. The current breakage of setuptools demonstrates why this is a slow, painful, process :-( > Even making something like cmake the standard would help a lot. There's no plan for anything like that. I'll leave it to you to imagine the cries of horror from the community when such a radical change meant that easy_install no longer worked, and there was no prospect of fixing it :-) Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
