[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:11:57 -0500
> James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 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.
>>
>> It seems like it'd be a good idea to start integrating distutils2 into python trunk immediately after the 3.2 branch is cut, then.
>
> +1 from me.

+1 too.

Just to clarify my position in a few sentences:

- I was told not to progressively change distutils
- the PEPs for my changes were accepted under the condition that the
changes would be made in distutils2
- PEP 384 is yet another accepted PEP, why the rule would change -
because it's a small feature ?
- I have tons of small features I had to revert and push back in distutils2

If Martin changes make it into Distutils1, I am going to ask that a
collection of small features that I have should go there too, because
they "should not break things"

Regards
Tarek

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