On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <s...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Tarek> That's why we have forked and created Distribute, to provide bug > Tarek> fixes. > > I suspect you might need to publicize this a bit better. The first I heard > of Distribute or non-responsiveness of PJE regarding setuptools was this > thread. (I don't read comp.lang.python anymore. I do read python-dev and > comp.lang.python.announce. Maybe I just missed it.)
No you didn't miss it. That's probably my fault because the only places I publicize about it are my blog (indexed in planet python) and the distutils-SIG. Maybe I should blog a summary of the situation and post it to python annoucement as well. > > Tarek> Now I am astonished that we are talking about reverting changes > Tarek> in Distutils that were done for bugfixes, for a third party > Tarek> package that does monkey patches on Distutils. > > As I said, I was completely unaware of the problems you're addressing with > Distribute. My guess is that many extension writers and almost certainly > those people who install extensions will be similarly unaware of the issues. Right, and an end-user can't be aware of those. But until they depend on a project that is not maintained and that we, active people, can't maintain; we will face such problems. Now I am dedicated to help all extension writers out there, and as a matter of fact I've been doing it since a few weeks on #distutils on freenode, and all the results of this work are contributed in Distribute. I have written down two important things so far from this thread: 1/ the need to provide a builbdot service for packagers that wish to try their package against the latest Distutils 2/ the need to publicize what is going on for a wider audience. Tarek _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
