[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jun 20 11:54:23 CEST 2012


On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis pitrou.net> writes:

> > Deciding to remove packaging from 3.3 is another instance of the same > mistake, IMO. > What's the rationale for leaving it in, when it's known to be incomplete/unfinished?

As an incentive for users to start using the features that are finished enough, and exercise the migration path from distutils. The module can be marked "provisional" so as to allow further API variations.

Regards

Antoine.



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