[Python-Dev] BDFL delegation for PEP 426 (PyPI metadata 1.3) (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Sun Feb 3 14:27:05 CET 2013

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On 02/03/2013 08:09 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

I'm sure it is perfectly possible to evolve and bugfix distutils without breaking distribute. What's more, distribute is actually maintained and can evolve to accomodate the fixes.

I wouldn't be on that proposition: there are a lot of burnouts down that rabbit hole.

As for setuptools (as opposed to distribute), I don't think we should care anymore.

Yes, you need to care. It is still true today that distribute and setuptools remain largely interchangeable, which is the only thing that makes distribute viable, in the ecosystem sense.

Tres. - --

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