On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:30:51 +0300 Ionel Cristian Mărieș <cont...@ionelmc.ro> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > (3) because distutils is part of the standard library and setuptools is > > most likely unwelcome there :-) > > > > Well, it's not dead yet. Sorry, I mean, good enough to be included in the > stdlib :-) > > But seriously, is it correct to assume that it's not there for largely the > same reasons pip ain't in stdlib? (and yes, getpip is in stdlib)
setuptools inclusion was discussed long ago AFAIK, and it was refused. For pip the reasons are different (the much shorter release cycle, the external dependencies required). See e.g.: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063966.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063886.html (incidentally, the latter link shows a previous attempt to refactor distutils was shot down because of backwards compatibility; which is also why distutils2 was canned, despite bringing concrete positive enhancements; had those attempts not been shot down, the situation right now would be significantly better than it is...) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
