-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2013 09:57 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > One of the most important packaging insights to understand is that > distutils is in fact worse than setuptools. It is badly outdated, > poorly extensible, and too complex to ever re-implement in a > compatible way. It is not better before the monkey patching. In a > perfect world it should be removed from the standard library too > except that removing distutils would be too impractical.
<snip> > If you can believe that distutils, not setuptools, is the problem we > are trying to recover from, then the monkeypatching strategy may make > more sense. Amen! Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIhYiIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ52SwCcDd/Nt8ETGsLIpxbiksYiayfO 59gAn1VxLMvZq4akWuzJsdCNUlBUUxGh =DFtl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
