On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Olemis Lang <ole...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Carl Meyer <c...@dirtcircle.com> wrote: >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >> [...] >>> >>> I am thinking about a version of pip that would be built on the top of >>> distutils2, >>> >> >> AFAICR there's a switch to use distribute instead of easy_install (CMIIW) >> > > I apologize, I know it's hard to follow. > [...] > > So the new work is happening now in a project called "distutils2" > which is using distutils as a basis. The improvements made in > distribute (like py3 support) will be moved to distutils2, and all > PEPs we've recently accepted are implemented there too.
What makes me think if `pip` has considered `distribute` then why not consider `distutils2` as well ? In the end «The improvements made in distribute [...] will be moved to distutils2, » ;o) > And that makes distutils2 a target for the pip installer. ;o) -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: TracRpc: API v2: New API methods and exceptions. JSON protocol refactored and tested ? - http://bitbucket.org/osimons/trac-rpc-mq/changeset/2643efa5f6d8/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
