David Cournapeau wrote:
One of the main argument to avoid rewrite is that you will end up doing the same mistakes, and old code is more complicated because it has been tested. But here, we know what a good design is like as other languages have vastly superior solutions to this problem.
Also, it seems to me that in this case, the basic architecture of distutils is already so full of mistakes that there just isn't an incremental way of getting to a better place, especially given the requirement of not breaking any existing setup.py scripts together with the fact that the API of distutils effectively consists of its *entire implementation*. So while complete rewrites are best avoided *if possible*, I don't think we have a choice in this case. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
