On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:22:07 +0200 Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > I tried to improve Distutils and I was stopped and told to start > distutils2, because > distutils is so rotten, any *real* change/improvment potentially brakes > the outside world.
If distutils was so rotten, distutils2 would not reuse much of its structure and concepts (and test suite), would it? Most of the distutils2 improvements (new PEPs, setup.cfg, etc.) were totally possible in distutils, weren't they? > > Deciding to remove packaging from 3.3 is another instance of the same > > mistake, IMO. > So what are your suggesting, since you seem to know what's a mistake and > what's not ? I don't have any suggestion apart from keeping packaging in 3.3. But I also think it would be better for the community if people were not delusional when making decisions. Removing packaging from 3.3 is a big risk: users and potential contributors will be even less interested than they already are. Here's a datapoint: distribute (*) is downloaded 100x more times than distutils2 (**). (*) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute/ (**) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2/ Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
