Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On 31 August 2013 16:03, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> wrote: > > Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > I tend to disagree. Such bugs are not fixed, not because they shouldn't / > >> > can't be fixed, but because distutils isn't really competently maintained > >> > (or not maintained at all, actually; Éric sometimes replies on bug entries > >> > but he doesn't commit anything these days). > >> > >> So is that particular issue a lost cause? > > > > Why would it be? > > Because there's no maintainer to commit or reject a patch (unless I've > misunderstood your comment above).
Ah, true. Indeed it's probably a lost cause *right now* (although a core developer could make a decision without being the official maintainer, IMO). Not eternally so, though :-) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
