[Python-Dev] packaging

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:39:55 -0400
Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just wanted to summarize what we've started at the sprint (and
> hopefully finish 1 to 7 this week):
> 
> 1/ distutils2 is merged as the "packaging" Python package in the
> standard library

Why does it get yet another name?
We already have distutils, setuptools, distribute, distutils2... now
"packaging"?

Regards

Antoine.