<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sebastien Douche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdouche@gmail.com">sdouche@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 13:49, Matthias Klose <<a href="mailto:doko@cs.tu-berlin.de">doko@cs.tu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> announcing a fork without any objective? what is this fork about?<br>
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</div>Python community *must* have a robust, stable and well featured<br>
infrastructure like Cpan, Gem or Apt. The actual situation is insane:<br>
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- Setuptools is not on Python core</blockquote><div><br>I agree this is a shame. The boundary between setuptools and distutils is fuzzy.<br>But if we build together a good tool, I guess it will be included at some point<br>
as a distutils replacement. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
- single point failure infrastructure (pypi.p.o)</blockquote><div><br>notice that there's a patch at this point that let setuptools use several indexes,<br>it will be discussed for inclusion in Distribute 0.3<br> <br>
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- not compatible with Hg / Bzr / Git out of the box<br></blockquote><div><br>Notice that you can write a Manifest.in file to avoid it at this point<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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- missing some features<br>
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As far I see, the goal is to speed up the development of a great tool,<br>
not just a fork for fun :).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>exactly ! <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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PS: within 1 month, Ubuntu 8.10 & Debian 4.2 are out (default svn :<br>
1.5). It's not acceptable to say "use trunk version, stupid!"<br>
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