On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:21, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with this. Remember: I wanted to deprecate MANIFEST.in in favor of a pure python description. Then people strongly objected.
How many people objected? Would it be OK to only have support for this in an external plugin, and not in stdlib?
These changes will go into Python current Distutils. You are welcome to help on enhancing this proposal.
Again, this is of course only possible if the new distutils is called something else, as we need backwards compatibility for a Very Long Time if it continues to be called distutils.
We are going to work as we said during the Summit : - make distutils lighter, and provide better/simpler ways to use it - include the good bits of setuptools in it - provide a backport for 2.5/2.6 as soon as 2.7 is out. I am changing my strategy. Since I am the current Distutils maintainer, I will take the role of 'packaging dictator' for Python 2.7. If you think I am missing some points (I am probably), You will need to complete the wiki pages or write a new page there explaining what you would like to see included in Distutils. But I will not work in flame-threads anymore on my side. Cheers Tarek