[Python-Dev] BDFL pronouncement? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Oct 9 17:33:35 CEST 2009

Chris Withers <chris simplistix.co.uk> writes:

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?

Er, perhaps this is a bit brutal? I don't think the BDFL has a right of life and death over third-party packages.

I mean, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune, aren't we?

WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- [snip]

Regards

Antoine.

PS :

PS: I had thought that MvL couldn't help because of ezsetup.py, but it's only buildout that appears foolish enough to have a hardcoded download of:

Some projects also have an SVN "externals" pointing to the setuptools SVN repository, as described here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/doc/ez_setup/index.html

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