<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Lennart Regebro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:regebro@gmail.com">regebro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":cn" class="ii gt">y the persons that you know do not have time to maintain it should<br>
be allowed to do so, That has put us through a lot of unnecessary<br>
pain, just because you are not willing to let go of something you no<br>
longer are willing to maintain.<br>
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I which we somehow could get control over the setuptools name on PyPI.<br>
Setuptools is dead, you are not interested in maintaining it, we<br>
should in fact not need to rename it at all.<br>
<div class="im"></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Setuptools is dead, but the fork should be named something else just to show that development doesn't have anything to do with the way setuptools and is in fact a new and live project. People that were burned by setuptools should give distribute a new chance.<div>
<br></div><div>What should happen is that distribute (or redbarrel or disttools) should provide a distribute-setuptools package that is just a module that import distribute and is transparent to other packages that want to continue to "import setuptools".<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Leonardo Santagada<br>
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