[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Dec 4 00:46:49 CET 2010


Am 04.12.2010 00:35, schrieb Terry Reedy:
> On 12/3/2010 5:52 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Am 03.12.2010 23:48, schrieb Éric Araujo:
>>>> But I'm not interested at all in having it in distutils2. I want the
>>>> Python build itself to use it, and alas, I can't because of the freeze.
>>> You can’t in 3.2, true.  Neither can you in 3.1, or any previous
>>> version.  If you implement it in distutils2, you have very good chances
>>> to get it for 3.3.  Isn’t that a win?
>>
>> It is, unfortunately, a very weak promise. Until distutils2 is
>> integrated in Python, I probably won't spend any time on it.
> 
> Éric, I have the impression from Tarek and you together that D2 is still
> in alpha only because it is not feature frozen and that it is as capable
> and stable as D1. I do not know what Martin means by 'integrate' (other
> than that he be able to use it to build Python)

That the master copy of the source code is in the Python source repository.

Regards,
Martin


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