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

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Oct 9 18:25:18 CEST 2009

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

At Python and PyPI level, 'Setuptools' is PJE's project and he's the one that manages the list of users that have extended rights on his project.

Indeed, if only he would see sense :-(

In Distribute, our setup.py script makes sure setuptools is not in the way. It is explicit and documented, and there's a documentation explaining how to switch back to Setuptools.

It's a hack though...

This exists only because there's no way yet in Python to say that a distribution can't run when another distribution is installed.

I don't this should ever be needed, except in this edge case caused by one man's stubbornness...

Distribute developers will of course promote Distutils usage everywhere, but hijacking setuptools in PyPI would be a very bad thing imho.

sigh I don't see it as hijacking, provided Guido is making a BDFL pronouncement that you're maintaining this software and PJE finally sees sense and accepts that.

Chris

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