Re: [Distutils] What is the official position on distutils?

2016-09-03 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 2 September 2016 at 19:28, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 2 September 2016 at 09:58, Sylvain Corlay > wrote: > >> My point here was that I don't think that the proposed feature has much > to > >> do with the concerns that were raised about dist

Re: [Distutils] What is the official position on distutils?

2016-09-03 Thread Sylvain Corlay
Hi Brett, On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > If Jason is up for the responsibility that seems like a reasonable > approach to take. It also helps test out features in setuptools first > before upstreaming it. > > How do you see `has_flag` get into setuptools? By monkey-patc

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-03 Thread Daniel Holth
It would be convenient to drop 2.6 in wheel too. On Sat, Sep 3, 2016, 14:14 Brett Cannon wrote: > I think the fact that Python 2.6 is past EOL means it's definitely up for > consideration. As for the 3% usage, as a trite comparison that's the amount > of scientists who deny climate change. So IM

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-03 Thread Brett Cannon
I think the fact that Python 2.6 is past EOL means it's definitely up for consideration. As for the 3% usage, as a trite comparison that's the amount of scientists who deny climate change. So IMO that suggests 2.6 is not used enough to burden PyPA with the maintenance and those who still want to us

Re: [Distutils] What is the official position on distutils?

2016-09-03 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 at 22:06 Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 2 September 2016 at 19:28, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 2 September 2016 at 09:58, Sylvain Corlay > wrote: > >> My point here was that I don't think that the proposed feature has much > to > >> do with the concerns that were raised about distutil