On 12 November 2015 at 03:48, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: ... > Right. I think PEP 426 fell into the same trap that distutils2 fell into. It > attempted to boil the ocean in one step and the longer it went on the more > aspirational stuff got layered onto it because it was being held up as the > great hope for packaging.
>From my blog post: https://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/the-merits-of-careful-impatience/ """ So here is how I think we should deliver things instead: 1. Design the change with specific care that it fails closed and is opt-in. 2. Implement the change(s) needed, in a new minor version of the tools. 3. Tell users they can use it. """ -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
