[Distutils] Annoucing distribute project

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sebastien Douche <sdouche at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 13:49, Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
> > announcing a fork without any objective? what is this fork about?
>
> Python community *must* have a robust, stable and well featured
> infrastructure like Cpan, Gem or Apt. The actual situation is insane:
>
> - Setuptools is not on Python core


I agree this is a shame. The boundary between setuptools and distutils is
fuzzy.
But if we build together a good tool, I guess it will be included at some
point
as a distutils replacement.


>
> - single point failure infrastructure (pypi.p.o)


notice that there's a patch at this point that let setuptools use several
indexes,
it will be discussed for inclusion in Distribute 0.3


>
> - not compatible with Hg / Bzr / Git out of the box
>

Notice that you can write a Manifest.in file to avoid it at this point


>
> - missing some features
>
>
> As far I see, the goal is to speed up the development of a great tool,
> not just a fork for fun :).
>

exactly !


>
>
> PS: within 1 month, Ubuntu 8.10 & Debian 4.2 are out (default svn :
> 1.5). It's not acceptable to say "use trunk version, stupid!"
>
>
> --
> Seb
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