[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip) (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 01:21:20 CEST 2009

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:11 AM, kiorky <kiorky at cryptelium.net> wrote:

Tarek Ziadé a écrit : The choice to deprecate easyinstall in 0.7 is done because the Pip project is not far to meet all uses cases easyinstall users have, and we're betting on the fact that Pip is active and will be much more advanced that what we could do with a 'new' refactored easyinstall by the time 0.7 is ready. But how about retro-compatibility? Like with all those buildout recipes which relies on setuptool APIs (Requirement, PackageIndex and so on), it's a risk to break same at some point.

Keep in mind that Distribute 0.6.x will still be maintained and will still provide easy_install and al, and that you will be able to rely on it for your projects.

Distribute 0.7.x is to be considered as a new project in some ways : all namespaces will be different and the code will not interfer with a 0.6 installation.

So a buildout recipe will have the choice to use the old packages you are mentioning and at some point evolve and use the new tools 0.7 will provide.

Tarek

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