[Distutils] Confused about distutils2/packaging

2012-09-17 Thread Almar Klein
Hi, I'm eagerly looking forward to the improvements that distutils2/packaging will (hopefully) bring, and I very much appreciate the efforts of those involved. However, I'm a bit confused about the status. On http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2 it says packaging is included in Python 3.3, and

Re: [Distutils] Confused about distutils2/packaging

2012-09-17 Thread Donald Stufft
It part of 3.3 for awhile, but it was ultimately removed because it was determined that it was not ready for inclusion in the stdlib. On Monday, September 17, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Almar Klein wrote: Hi, I'm eagerly looking forward to the improvements that distutils2/packaging will

Re: [Distutils] zip imports ftw

2012-09-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 16, 2012, at 03:33 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 lines of whitespace between classes, and includes functionality for eggs and some other stuff that was unwanted on top of the resources stuff that partly made its way into

Re: [Distutils] zip imports ftw

2012-09-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 16, 2012, at 03:40 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 15:33 -0400, Daniel Holth wrote: It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 lines of whitespace between classes, and includes functionality for eggs and some other stuff that was unwanted on

Re: [Distutils] zip imports ftw

2012-09-17 Thread Daniel Holth
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Sep 16, 2012, at 03:40 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 15:33 -0400, Daniel Holth wrote: It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 lines of whitespace between classes, and

Re: [Distutils] zip imports ftw

2012-09-17 Thread Erik Bray
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote: It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 lines of whitespace between classes, and includes functionality for eggs and some other stuff that was unwanted on top of the resources stuff that partly