On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:54 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on > merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the > setuptools code base. He has volunteered to take over maintenance of > setuptools, and I welcome his assistance. I appreciate the > contributions made by the distribute maintainers over the years, and > am glad to have Jason's help in getting those contributions into > setuptools as well. Continuing to keep the code bases separate isn't > helping anybody, and as setuptools moves once again into active > development to deal with the upcoming shifts in the Python-wide > packaging infrastructure (the new PEPs, formats, SSL, TUF, etc.), it > makes sense to combine efforts.
That's awesome news. Thanks Phillip and Jason! Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig