On Nov 14, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote:
> > On 13 Nov, 2012, at 17:21, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > >> Le Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:10:30 +0100, >> Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> a écrit : >>> >>> On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I want to remove distutils from the standard library. >>> >>> Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages. >>> It could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more >>> useable, although patches for that would run into the self-imposed >>> freeze of distutils development. >> >> It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to start a project named >> "distutils2" to build the next-generation distutils library. >> >> Oops :-) > > Or carefully enhance distutils itself. Rewriting distutils in one go seems > to be too ambitious with the limited resources available to do so. That has been tried already (setuptools, distribute, distutils2). Instead, try bento (http://cournape.github.com/Bento/). Hilariously everyone I've showed it to is immediately put off by the indentation based syntax (who would use such a thing?) but the project has a few years of effort behind it and is well designed.
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