On Nov 14, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> wrote:


On 13 Nov, 2012, at 17:21, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:10:30 +0100,
Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> a écrit :

On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to remove distutils from the standard library.

Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages.
It could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more
useable, although patches for that would run into the self-imposed
freeze of distutils development.

It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to start a project named
"distutils2" to build the next-generation distutils library.

Oops :-)

Or carefully enhance distutils itself.  Rewriting distutils in one go seems
to be too ambitious with the limited resources available to do so.

That has been tried already (setuptools, distribute, distutils2). Instead, try bento (http://cournape.github.com/Bento/). 

Hilariously everyone I've showed it to is immediately put off by the indentation based syntax (who would use such a thing?) but the project has a few years of effort behind it and is well designed.