On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:56:49AM -0600, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> For a large number of people [1, 2, 3], setuptools is already a
> critical part of Python.  Make it official.  Let everyone know that
> future releases of Python will not break setuptools/Distribute, and
> that they can rely on backwards-compatibility

   Who will pay the price of maintaining that part of stdlib and the price
of compatibility? Because there is always a price; should the core
developers be burdened?

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytman            http://phd.pp.ru/            p...@phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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