On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/7/2 David Cournapeau <[email protected]>: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:09 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Great post, Tarek. Following good old newsgroups/FIDOnet tradition it >>> could be nice to see this transformed to Rules/FAQ document that will >>> be reposted automatically here by a robot about once a month. >>> >>> Without such documents your proposal will be weakly supported, because >>> people will still have questions, and you will need to answer them >>> reasonably to eliminate the source of conflict for making >>> collaboration moving into the right direction (which you also need to >>> define). >>> >>> 1. Why the rules? >>>> From time to time this mailing list is getting very unpleasant to work >>>> in because some old disagreements, and because some people are >>>> starting to get really nasty. >>> >>> 2. What are those 'disagreements' people can agree upon? >> >> I think the following in uncontroversial: >> >> distutils and setuptools are useful packaging solutions which have >> significant shortcoming, both design and implementation-wise. Some >> people believe the distutils/setuptools/distribute issues can be >> solved by gradually deprecating code and adding new features, other >> people (me, but I am not alone) believe it would be better and faster >> to rewrite something from scratch because the distutils code is >> unmanageable and too complicated. > > You keep saying that for years, but in the meantime, the code was cleaned.
I was just summarizing the situation to answer the original question from the OP. There was absolutely no judgement in the text I have written. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
