On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: >> At 10:50 AM 7/1/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> >>> It's precisely because Ubuntu is a good distribution that they decided >>> to switch to distribute to get the most active project in it. >> >> Really? I would've thought that the most *stable* version of a project >> would generally be the better choice for an operating system distribution. >> ;-) > > It's a better choice than setuptools, which is unmaintained for two > years with pending bugfixes.
It is again obviously wrong, since setuptools works and distribute does not for my use case. I am not sure how to put this more clearly: if you pretend to be a piece of software you are not, you better have to work for 100 % cases of the old one. Not 90 %, not 99 %. Anything short of 100 % is unacceptable. If you can't guarantee 100 % compatibility, you don't force people to use your software instead of another one, I don't understand how I even have to explain this, really. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
