[Distutils] Bundling pkg_resources

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:25 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 08:10 PM 11/30/2009 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> 2009/11/30 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
>> > At 07:16 PM 11/30/2009 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Well, that sort of sucks. And this is my motivation for bundling the
>> >> `pkg_resources` from Distribute. The last thing I want is having my
>> >> software
>> >> fail for my users because of setuptools while I have Distribute
>> >> installed
>> >> locally and can't see the bug on my computer.
>> >
>> > That's *really* unlikely.  Setuptools' runtime functionality (i.e.,
>> > pkg_resources) has an extremely low bug count.  There have actually been
>> > more new pkg_resources bugs in Distribute's version of it (due to their
>> > changes) than there are outstanding reported bugs in the original
>> > pkg_resources.
>>
>> As I said earlier, we've had our share of bugs because we needed to
>> make Distribute
>> work in some particular environments, but that was bootstraping issues
>> we've fixed. And
>> if we have more we will fix them and release another version of
>> Distribute.
>
> I wasn't criticizing Distribute - I was using Distribute to show just *how
> low* pkg_resources' bug count is.
>
> (You know, this is now the third time in the last few days where you've
> interpreted my *positive* comments about your work (e.g. PEP 386) to someone
> else here as being some sort of criticism or argument with you.)

That was not a positive or negative comment about Distribute, but an
incomplete statement.

So I've corrected this statement.

I agree that pkg_resources doesn't have a lot of bug. But I am also
saying that Distribute's versions has less bugs.