[Catalog-sig] [Python-Dev] [Distutils] accept the wheel PEPs 425, 426, 427

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:10:30 +0100,
Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> a écrit :
> 
> On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I want to remove distutils from the standard library.
> 
> Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages.
> It could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more
> useable, although patches for that would run into the self-imposed
> freeze of distutils development.

It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to start a project named
"distutils2" to build the next-generation distutils library.

Oops :-)

Antoine.