On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:07:10 +0100 Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 October 2015 at 12:52, Thomas Güttler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ok, at the moment setuptools uses distutils. > > > > Why not melt them together into **one** underwear-pants-module? > > (1) because there's no-one with anything like the time or energy to do > such a thing > (2) because doing so would almost certainly break vast numbers of > existing setup.py scripts
(3) because distutils is part of the standard library and setuptools is most likely unwelcome there :-) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
