[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 26, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Olemis Lang wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>  
> wrote:
>>
>> BTW, under a better name, I would support putting pkg_resources in  
>> the
>> stdlib.
>>
>
> ... or a subset of it ? or integrating its features with PEP 302 ? ...
> Sounds interesting to me ...
>
> /me thinking aloud
>
> ... perhaps unifying these features with loaders in standard PEP 302
> is the way ... :-§ ... dont see the point of having an isolated module
> for doing what loaders should do ... including that there are plans to
> do it already ... thereby duplicating functionality in loaders and
> ResourceManager, and so on ...
>
> And'u ? What d'u think ?

Let me clarify my position: I just want the functionality (preferably  
in the stdlib); I don't really care how it's spelled (except please  
not pkg_resource.whatever() :).

Barry

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