Re: [Distutils] Distutils work, roadmap

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Lyon wrote:

Tarek,

I wouldn't take "feedback" as all bad....

Indirectly, it seems like you are telling people not to report their experience. Indirectly, it seems like you are discouraging thinking about what could be done to improve things.

I am encouraging people to work with the people that have started to work on various topics durong Pycon

Here, we have a popular saying "Nothing ever gets fixed if people don't complain."

A roadmap is a good idea...

I think distutils needs one...

The rough roadmap was expressed during pycon main page : http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils main topics: - have a standard version comparison API - http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistutilsVersionFight - standardize egg-info: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StandardizeEggInfo - finalize the new PEP 345 - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Metadata - work on the static metadata concept - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StaticMetadata - work on extendding commands - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/ManifestPluginSystem/Draft

David

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:34:06 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

...

Remainder about Distutils:

- we did a summit at Pycon about distutils - some people started to work on various tasks (PEPs, etc)

Can everyone here who says "distutils sucks" "setuptools sucks", "let's rewrite them from scratch" hear that:

Just join the work in progress, help on the PEP, uses cases, and stop whining about the situation !!!!

Thank you

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