On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:05:29 +0200 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 October 2015 at 14:55, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Thomas Güttler > > <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > >> ok, at the moment setuptools uses distutils. > >> > >> Why not melt them together into **one** underwear-pants-module? > > > > > > What do you hope getting from that ? distutils is in the stdlib, so cannot > > change easily, and even if putting setuptools in the stdlib were possible, > > you would now need to handle different versions of setuptools for different > > versions of python. > > It's more useful to go the other direction and vendor a modern version > of distutils inside setuptools:
It seems it would only add a bit more craziness to the current landscape. What happens to projects which have a need to monkeypatch distutils? How does it interact with the vendored version? etc. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
