[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 23:23:21 CET 2010

2010/12/2 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

Am 02.12.2010 22:54, schrieb Michael Foord:

On 02/12/2010 21:39, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

I was told not to touch to Distutils code to avoid any regression since it's patched to the bones in third party products. So we decided to freeze distutils and add all new features in Distutils2, which is at alpha stage now.  So this move seems contradictory to me. I think it was a bad decision to freeze distutils, and "we" certainly didn't make that (not any we that includes me, that is). This freeze made the situation worse. What situation worse? The "distutils is unmaintained" situation. It's not only unmaintained now, but proposed improvements are rejected without consideration, on the grounds that they are changes.

I welcome those changes in Distutils2. That's the whole point.

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