On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > As oh right now pkg_resources is part of setuptools, it’s only the downstream > folks who split them apart. There are some decisions to make regarding > splitting > them out that I don’t know how setuptools wants to handle it. > > However once the stuff that pkg_resources provides is standardized it will be > available as part of https://warehouse.python.org/project/packaging/ so > projects > wishing to use the standards based functionality (most of which is heavily > inspired > if not outright “stolen” from setuptools/pkg_resources) will be able to use > that > eventually.
It's great to hear that some work is being done on splitting them out, thanks for the response! _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
