On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 17 October 2013 11:56, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> >> Arguably it's already broken. I've had to explain to a number of people >> that it won't cause their dependencies to install. I think its way more user >> friendly to tell them up front then to confuse them when it doesn't work or >> when it appears to work but they get an error from a - >> > > You're proposing replacing "arguably broken" (by some definition)
Is there any reason to think that it ever actually worked in any way? Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig