On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
At 07:28 PM 10/12/2009 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
we must "uninstall Distribute completely" get these fixes.
That's Distribute's doing, not mine. As I understand it, their
package includes a 'setuptools' package, and if it's on your
sys.path, then installing the new version of setuptools will be a no-
op. If they hadn't done that, there'd be no problem. See the
Distribute documentation.
In any case, the update is not intended for people who are happy to
have Distribute, but the people who are unhappy about having to
switch, or deal with its workarounds... or just wish the whole
discussion would go away.
Then suddenly out of the blue
It may appear sudden to you, if you haven't been reading Python-
Dev. There's been quite a bit of discussion about an urgent bug
that Tarek introduced in Python 2.6.3. It's mainly because of that
bug that I took the time to go ahead and get a bunch of other
pending bugs cleaned up and checked in.
No, I've been reading Python-Dev right along.
Yes, Python 2.6.3 included a change that broke a year-old, orphaned
product, in severe need of bug fixes that lots of people just happen
to depend on.
The fall-down was in the testing done before the Python release and
I'm sure more testing will be done in that area before the 2.6.4
bugfix release.
I find it kind of comical, and a little pathetic, that you think you
can just whip out a bug fix after a year of frustration and everone's
just going to forget history and sign up for more of the same.
As Alex said in response to my previous message:
Too little, too late, no thanks, I'll just be sticking with
Distribute from now on.
Several developers and an open development process vs a lone coder
with a closed codebase? That's not really a choice at all...
Sorry, it doesn't look like anyone wants to play with you any more;
you can just keep your ball.
Maybe you could submit some patches into the open Distribute process.
Now _that_ would be helpful.
S
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