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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Oct 6 21:16:07 CEST 2009

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 02:45 PM 10/6/2009 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:

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. That may not be as easy as it sounds; Distribute deleted various things from the setuptools tree (e.g. the release.sh script, used for issuing releases) and of course it adds other stuff (e.g. stuff to overwrite setuptools).  So you'd need to screen the diffs. Second, I still intend to move setuptools 0.7 forward at some point, which means the patches also need to go to the trunk.

Dream on.

If I had the time to co-ordinate and supervise all this, I'd have the time to just do it myself.

I think at this point the community should not be forced wait for you to get a new supply of round tuits. The wait has been too long already. You can stay on in an advisory role, but I don't think it's reasonable to block development or decisions until you have time.

If you want to help with that, the most helpful thing would be for you to consolidate all the changes into a pair of patches: one for the 0.6 branch and one for the 0.7 trunk.

These patches would also need to exclude the SVN 1.6 changes (as I already have a change for that in my working copy, not yet checked in).  They would also need to include appropriate changelog and documentation updates. If you can get those to me by Friday, I'll have them reviewed, applied, and released by Monday.  I was already planning to spend a little time on bug closing and patch application this coming weekend, so if you can do this for me first, it will maximize the number I can get done.

That's great, but I don't think it solves the structural problem, which is that you don't have enough time to devote to the project.

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