[Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Oct 15, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Ivan Krstić wrote:
>
>> That'd be nice. And on that note, for the love of confused masses
>> everywhere, can we please change the name of easy_install to  
>> something
>> Python-specific, such as 'egg' or 'py_install'?
>
> I don't think that easy_install support is going to
> become universal until its functionality is folded
> into distutils and it becomes part of the standard
> distribution. Expecting everyone to learn about and
> support a particular 3rd party addition is just not
> realistic.

Even then easy_install support won't be univeral. I still run into  
packages that don't use distutils, mostly stuff that is or was part  
of a larger C code base.

Ronald

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