On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, ssteinerX@gmail.com <ssteinerx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:55 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
[a whole bunch of stuff...]
Understood and I've observed the public portions of all of this. Much of it has not been pretty.
Personality conflicts aside, I wonder if it would be possible to move some portion of the base of both setuptools and Distribute to some sort of shared foundation.
distutils in stdlib seems like this foundation. I'm not sure it would be beneficial to inject another layer (and therefore dependency) between distutils and setuptools/distribute, but will defer that judgment to the maintainers involved in the 3 projects (distutils, setuptools, and distribute). I think everyone would prefer only setuptools or distribute to survive in the long term as the current situation is less than ideal from a technical and social standpoint. When one of these projects ultimately deprecates the other, any shared foundation they created would be reduced to needless complexity and cruft. But I'm just a user/observer like yourself, so someone with a bit more authority might want to chime in. :-) HTH, Michael Schurter