On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:18 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: >> And how does this answer the question "what are the disagreements" ? >> Short of saying what those are, I fail to see how to give a good >> answer, > > I am not sure to understand your point here. You stated two years ago, IIRC, > that distutils code was unmanageable and too complicated, and that a > write from scracth > was better.
I am sorry if I gave the impression I wanted to start again this discussion. I really do not want to, and I don't think anyone else does either. Eric stated very cleary what was my intention. As for where distutils2 is going, we (me and other scipy people) have stated why we *believed* (and still do) it was a wrong way when Guido asked about it in the context of scipy, and I don't remember having mentioned my disagreement over this ever since. It is pretty obvious you won't change your mind, and I won't change mine either. You will notice that I have almost never mentioned my own project on this mailing list to avoid giving the impression I wanted to circumvent what you are doing, I explicitly requested not to send email about it on this ML for that exact reason. And I still give what I believe are useful advices from time to time for people using distutils/setuptools on this ML (without telling them: use bento instead). David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
