[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jun 20 12:39:34 CEST 2012


On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:30:51 +0200 Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:

> > Most of the distutils2 improvements (new PEPs, setup.cfg, etc.) were > totally possible in distutils, weren't they? I started there, remember ? And we ended up saying it was impossible to continue without breaking the packaging world.

"we" were only certain people, AFAIR.

why would you expect a different datapoint ?

I wasn't expecting a different datapoint, I'm pointing that shipping packaging in the stdlib would provide a much better exposure.

Regards

Antoine.



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