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

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Oct 7 19:12:48 CEST 2009


On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:56:49AM -0600, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:

For a large number of people [1, 2, 3], setuptools is already a critical part of Python. Make it official. Let everyone know that future releases of Python will not break setuptools/Distribute, and that they can rely on backwards-compatibility

Who will pay the price of maintaining that part of stdlib and the price of compatibility? Because there is always a price; should the core developers be burdened?

Oleg.

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