On Aug 21, 2013, at 12:31 PM, PJ Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally, I'm very happy to see Vinay's extensions, because they are > IMO important validations of whether the new specs are likely to be > useful for replacing all of setuptools' functionality. There are > people who need to mount eggs and have their extensions run, so if it > wasn't possible to build tools that support them under the new specs > (whether that support is required by the spec or not), that would > still be a reason to use setuptools -- meaning, IMO, that the new spec > effort is failing to create a unified packaging world. I'm perfectly happy that he was able (and did) write those extensions, I was one of the people who wanted metadata 2.0 to be extensible for exactly that purpose. None of my arguments were against any particular feature. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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