[Python-Dev] BDFL pronouncement? (original) (raw)
Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Oct 9 17:01:36 CEST 2009
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'm saying that I don't expect setuptools 0.7 to appear before Tarek's Distribute is mature and in widespread use. IOW I support Tarek's fork and suggest nobody hold their breath waiting for setuptools 0.7.
Well, if this was the BDFL pronouncement that a lot of people have taken it to be, does that allow Martin von Lewis to give the keys to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools to the "distribute" developers, so we can get on and use the original "setuptools" name without all the confusion and hackery needed to make "distribute" work?
cheers,
Chris
PS: I had thought that MvL couldn't help because of ez_setup.py, but it's only buildout that appears foolish enough to have a hardcoded download of:
exec urllib2.urlopen('http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py' ).read() in ez
..and even that will keep working provided PJE doesn't take it down...
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