On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis > wrote: >> 2009-10-04 23:52:25 Sridhar Ratnakumar napisał(a): >> > On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for >> > > what the packaging system is calling "setuptools". That's pretty >> > > much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux (dev), >> > > right now >> > >> > Interesting. Gentoo uses distribute but retains the name 'setuptools'? >> >> It's because Distribute 0.6.* installs setuptools.* modules. >> Distribute 0.7.* will be under name dev-python/distribute. >> > I started thinking about what it might take to do this for Fedora as well. > There's a number of worries I have but it sounds attractive because of the > increased maintainence support from distribute's upstream. > > An alternative I thought of would be for us to ship both distribute-0.6 and > distribute-0.7 (when it arrives) and parallel install them. Then we can > patch the setuptools using packages we maintain to check first for the 0.6 > distribute and fall back on setuptools if it's not found. That would > hopefully get a bunch of upstreams onto a better supported code base. > > My question is: will Distribute have a parallel installation plan? For > instance, renaming the module provided by 0.7 distribute2? If so, this > makes a lot of sense. If not, it's the ability of gentoo to reuse the > setuptools name that makes parallel installation of distribute-0.6 and > distribute-0.7 easier.
We are not sure yet, but when 0.7 will be ready we have two choices: 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like "distribute2" 2- we ship a fat 0.7 with the old 0.6 packages and modules included. I think 1- is better, because it's cleaner in many ways. Plus, people that will start to use 0.7 will not mind using the "distribute2" name. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
