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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Oct 9 22:56:42 CEST 2009


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Chris Withers schrieb:

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? That's absurd.  There's a certain area where Guido can make pronouncements, but third-party packages is not it.  Even if they're hosted on python.org infrastructure.

Right.

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