[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 3 00:01:52 CET 2010

I think distutils is simply a bugfix branch for distutils2. Similarly as how we don't commit improvements in e.g. 2.7 or 3.1, neither do we commit improvements to distutils.

It's different, though, in the sense that Python has a release schedule and multiple committers working on it, and that it normally gets released even if some changes don't get included in a specific release yet.

All this seems not to be true for distutils2. So my motivation to contribute changes to it is much lower than my desire to contribute to distutils, and it is also provably lower than my motivation to contribute to distribute (say). I'm just getting tired having to talk to five projects just to make a single change to the build infrastructure available to the Python community.

Regards, Martin

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