Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> writes: > Ah, the, distutils tracker is actually bugs.python.org, but that's not > generally what people want - as you did, they want the setuptools > issue tracker on BitBucket, since distutils in the standard library > isn't really getting major updates any more.
Are distutils and setuptools intended to merge? From the outside it seems that distutils is either a subset of setuptools, or an older implementation of similar functionality, or a bit of both. If distutils is obsolete, why does it hang around? ... Actually, I just found [1], so I guess this is a work in progress. It seems weird to me that this isn't entirely clear from the docs.python.org documentation at [2]; I suppose a sentence to the effect of "setuptools is intended to supercede distutils" under 'Key terms' would suffice. But I think I'm nit-picking now. Clearly, the history here is quite complex, and it needs more time to settle. [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020126.html [2] https://docs.python.org/3/distributing/index.html >> Also, the link from [2] to the tracker only takes you to [4], not to >> [5], which I would expect. That I was sent to [4] made me think that I >> had been sent to the wrong place, until I found the small paragraph at >> the bottom of the page. Note that [1] is top of a Google search (for >> me) for "setuptools bug". > > I filed a couple of proposed changes: > > Getting a suitable banner added to bugs.python.org/setuptools: > http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue546 > Changing the setuptools metadata to link back to BitBucket from PyPI: > https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/pull-request/54/ These would seem to address the most pressing issues right now! > The docs daisy chain I was talking about was the one starting from > https://docs.python.org/3/installing/ and > https://docs.python.org/3/distributing/index.html, which eventually > gets you to https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/projects.html > > However, that's not going to be relevant when someone already knows > generally how everything works and is specifically hunting for a bug > tracker link for distutils/setuptools. Right, that makes sense; and your usage of "distutils/setuptools" is revealing! Thanks, Toby -- Toby St Clere Smithe http://tsmithe.net _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
