[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted (original) (raw)
Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Fri Dec 3 06:32:39 CET 2010
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Le 02/12/2010 23:17, Martin v. Löwis a écrit :
Before the freeze, distutils was unmaintained (i.e. before you started maintaining it), but people who want to improve it gradually atleast could. Now gradual improvements are also banned, so it's not only unmaintained, but I can't even provide support for the PEP in Python that was just accepted.
I wonder what your definition of “unmaintained” is. Tarek has been fixing bugs for two years, and recently I have been made a committer to assist him. It’s true that I’ve not been as active as I would have liked*, but I did fix some bugs, as I think you know, given that you’ve helped me in some reports.
Sure, distutils is not as well-maintained as other modules, but a dozen bugs have been fixed by five or six of us since the revert. I do feel responsible for all 116 remaining bugs, and intend to address all of them.
- This is partly normal, since I had warned before I was accepted as a committer that my time would be scarce for a year, partly due to the fact that I also do bug triage, doc work and patch reviews, and partly due to some personal problems with focusing.
On the matter of freeze exceptions, there have been two:
- reading the makefile with surogateescape error handler so that python can build with an ASCII locale in a non-ASCII path (haypo, #6011)
- handle soabiflags (barry, #9807). I took part in the discussion before those changes and did not object to them: they are very small changes that enable a new feature of Python 3.2. Maybe I should have requested Tarek’s approval for those changes; he knows better than me how third parties may break because of changes that don’t seem to break anything.
Regards
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