[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Georg Brandl]

Am 20.06.2012 12:39, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:30:51 +0200
> Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > Most of the distutils2 improvements (new PEPs, setup.cfg, etc.) were
>> > totally possible in distutils, weren't they?
>> I started there, remember ? And we ended up saying it was impossible to 
>> continue without
>> breaking the packaging world.
> 
> "we" were only certain people, AFAIR.

Yes. The people willing to work on packaging in Python, to be exact.

>> why would you expect a different datapoint ?
> 
> I wasn't expecting a different datapoint, I'm pointing that shipping
> packaging in the stdlib would provide a much better exposure.

But not if it's not ready for prime time.  (And providing the finished
distutils2 for Python 2 will provide even better exposure at the moment.)

Georg