On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: .. >> >> I understand where you're coming from but, .. >> I think it's saner to rely on proven technology >> than to invent our own protocol. NIH? > > This also feels like a problem that has already been solved in various ways > by Debian, RedHat, CPAN and others.
Yes, and we've found a way similar to CPAN, with some Python specifics (PyPI download statistics mainly) Oh my, we're cycling again. Nothing personal to you or Jim, but I have a sudden fatigue on packaging because it seems like people are ignoring what's being done to complain afterwards about us suffering of some kind of NIH :) If you're seeing anything you don't like in PEP 381 (accepted a while ago), go ahead and propose some improvements. But please keep in mind that we've looked at other systems before we wrote that PEP. Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig