Hi, On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On top of that there are technical reasons (don't want to test > combinations of python + setuptools that both change per release) and > organizational ones (distutils maintenance is terrible, many simple bugfix > patches don't get merged for ages, setuptools at least fixes regressions > quite fast). > > I'm not sure if there's an official policy on adding new things to > distutils, but if not then this request is a good time to make one. > Assuming of course that the setuptools devs are willing to merge features > like the one from Sylvain. > > I find this worrying that the main arguments to not include a patch would be that - this part of the standard library is not very maintained (things don't get merged) - earlier versions of won't have it The former is a bad sign for a standard library and the latter is inherent to any new feature. Whether it is a policy or not to not add new features to distutils it is clear that a code base that does not evolve is dead. How about, instead, we continue improving it? Sylvain
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