[python-committers] Wording about packaging in the 3.3 announcement

[Éric Araujo]

Hi Georg,

I would like to clarify something in order to remove a misleading or 
confusing statement from the release email:

> * The new "packaging" module, building upon the "distribute" and
>    "distutils2" projects and deprecating "distutils"

First, packaging *is* distutils2, modulo a few changesets that I have to 
port between the codebases.  Second, I would remove the mention of 
distribute: packaging is an implementation of the packaging PEPs which 
have their origins in setuptools and which have been improved by the 
community, and it also takes some minor features and ideas from 
setuptools, but I think that “building upon” is too strong (and 
mentioning only distribute may hurt the feelings of setuptools authors 
and users—distutils-sig is a heated place).

My suggestion:

   * The new "packaging" module (also known as distutils2, and released
     standalone under this name), implementing the new packaging formats
     and deprecating "distutils".

The whatsnew document has the same problem, and also mixes packaging 
(venv and packaging) with imports (namespace packages), but I did not 
get a chance to fix it before today, so I probably will after the alpha.

Thanks