[Python-Dev] Raising objections (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Apr 19 21:50:55 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

It is precisely my concern that this happens. For whatever reason, writing packaging-and-deployment software is totally unsexy.

for some reason, tools of this kind tend to reach the big ball of mud stage even before they reach the dogfood stage. and once you have a big ball of mud, you simply won't get much outside help -- not because it's unsexy, but because it's nearly impossible to contribute, at any level, unless you have days and days to spare...

(distutils and setuptools are over 15000 lines of code, according to sloc- count. it took Python several years to accumulate a standard library that big ;-)

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