[Python-Dev] Package install failures in 2.6.3 (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 17:02:02 CEST 2009

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

 Tarek> That's why we have forked and created Distribute, to provide bug  Tarek> fixes. I suspect you might need to publicize this a bit better.  The first I heard of Distribute or non-responsiveness of PJE regarding setuptools was this thread.  (I don't read comp.lang.python anymore.  I do read python-dev and comp.lang.python.announce.  Maybe I just missed it.)

No you didn't miss it. That's probably my fault because the only places I publicize about it are my blog (indexed in planet python) and the distutils-SIG.

Maybe I should blog a summary of the situation and post it to python annoucement as well.

 Tarek> Now I am astonished that we are talking about reverting changes  Tarek> in Distutils that were done for bugfixes, for a third party  Tarek> package that does monkey patches on Distutils. As I said, I was completely unaware of the problems you're addressing with Distribute.  My guess is that many extension writers and almost certainly those people who install extensions will be similarly unaware of the issues.

Right, and an end-user can't be aware of those. But until they depend on a project that is not maintained and that we, active people, can't maintain; we will face such problems.

Now I am dedicated to help all extension writers out there, and as a matter of fact I've been doing it since a few weeks on #distutils on freenode, and all the results of this work are contributed in Distribute.

I have written down two important things so far from this thread:

1/ the need to provide a builbdot service for packagers that wish to try their package against the latest Distutils 2/ the need to publicize what is going on for a wider audience.

Tarek

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