2009/7/15 Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>:
I've been trying to follow this discussion now for weeks. The signal to noise ratio is pretty low.
I agree :-(
I'd love to have an stdlib solution for distribution packaging and installation. But I think we might as well pack it up and go home if the folks whom are contributing to the discussion "recreationally" (whom are not themselves implementers and potential implementers or spec writers or potential spec writers of packaging systems) continue to chime in on *every single issue*, contributing only stop energy. It's just completely pointless.
I thought that as someone who is writing code for Tarek's PEP 376 prototype implementation, I counted as offering useful input. Thinking further on what I've said, I'm no longer sure that's true. I do think that at *some* point, the feedback from the non-packagers, negative or irrelevant though it might be, needs to be requested and considered. Maybe now isn't the right time, but it needs to be done at some point. Until then, I'll try to avoid adding to the noise. Paul.