On Jun 30, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: > >> I'm not worried about the speed or performance, I'm worried about how >> annoying it is to write a tool that processes it. > > Quite possibly I misunderstood the thrust of your argument, but the point of > distlib is to take care of those kinds of low-level details, rather than > having multiple packaging tools reimplement that processing you refer to. Of > course people are free to not use distlib, but if I'm wasting my time then > it would be nice if people would tell me :-) > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig I'm not knocking the work you've done on distlib at all :) I just don't think it's existence means we shouldn't worry about the user friendliness of the API if someone doesn't use it. Maybe you think a single list is more user-friendly. That's fine for you to think that, we can agree to disagree on that :) ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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