[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] Merge catalog-sig and distutils-sig

[Richard Jones]

I've set the wheels in motion. I just need a little help from the pydotorg
volunteers (and some hits from the mailman cluebat).


    Richard


On 30 March 2013 06:43, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org>
> wrote:
> >> On 29 March 2013 14:45, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> >>> If we leave the main list the 'distutils-sig', and just announce that
> >>> 'catalog-sig' is retired, folks who want to follow the new list just
> >>> switch over.  All the archives (mailman / gmane / etc.) stay valid, but
> >>> the list goes into moderated mode.
> >>
> >> Whoever has the power to do this, do it please.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > distutils-sig it is. We're expanding the charter to "the distutils
> > standard library module, the Python Package Index and associated
> > interoperabilty standards", but that's a lot easier than forcing
> > everyone to rewrite their mail filters.
> >
> > Besides, it's gonna be a *long* time before the default build system
> > in the standard library is anything other than distutils. Coupling the
> > build system to the language release cycle has proven to be a *bad
> > idea*, because the addition of new platform support needs to happen in
> > a more timely fashion than language releases. The incorporation of pip
> > bootstrapping into 3.4 will also make it a lot easier to recommend
> > more readily upgraded alternatives.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
> > _______________________________________________
> > Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>
> Sounds good to me, whoever please to doing the needful.
>
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> Donald Stufft
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