[Python-Dev] a new setuptools release? (original) (raw)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Tue Oct 6 15:45:31 CEST 2009

Hi Phil,

It's almost a week since I made this offer. I haven't heard anything from you. If I've missed anything please let me know and I'll track it down, otherwise I hope you can have a look at this some time soon.

cheers,

Chris

Chris Withers wrote: > P.J. Eby wrote: >> Here's what actually happened, if anyone cares. Tarek and friends >> announced a fork of setuptools. I reviewed the work and saw that -- >> for the most part -- I was happy with it, and opined as how I might be >> willing to bless the the "package inquisition" team as official >> maintainers of the 0.6 branch of setuptools, so that I could work on >> the fun bits I've long planned for 0.7, but never felt free to start >> on while there was so much still needing to be done on 0.6. >> If this offer is still available, I'd lake to take you up on it. > I'd be more than willing to merge changes on the 0.6 distribute branch > back into the setuptools codebase and do whatever is needed to get a new > setuptools release out. >> Why? Because there are a lot of copies of ezsetup.py and buildout's > bootstrap.py that will need replacing if it doesn't happen. I think it'd > be better for the python community all round if setuptools just > continued in maintenance mode until whatever-ends-up-in-the-core exists > and people want to use... >> I'm happy to submit to whatever supervision is needed for you to trust > me to do this, and I promise to be as careful as I can with this. I > know how important this is and want to make it work... >>> All I want is for good stuff to happen for setuptools users and Python >> users in general, so I don't think all the suspicion and backbiting is >> merited. >> Fine, if that's true, I apologize (even spelled correctly!) for any > previous involvement in this, but please help me help you achieve your > aims... >> To put this into a way that makes sense to me: I'm volunteering to keep > distribute 0.6 and setuptools 0.6 in sync, no more, no less, and try and > keep that as uncontroversial as possible, and get setuptools 0.6 > releases out to match distribute 0.6 releases as soon as I can. >> Again, I feel I need to stress that the only reason I want to do this > is to bring the benefits of the distribute work to the existing > setuptools codebase, with appropriate attribution if that makes a > difference. >> Apologies if any of this is offensive to anyone. For once (really!) I > really mean that :-) >> cheers, >> Chris >

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