March 26, 2013
6:15 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
I suspect at least 80% of packages will use some simple thing that comes with Python, two third party build tools will dominate, and we will discover interesting things that just weren't possible before. At least if someone wants to improve packaging we can make it easy for them to try without having to ask distutils-sig.
...and for that matter, without them having to monkeypatch distutils, scrape HTML from the PyPI UI, and sandbox-execute other people's setup.py files. ;-)