There are >1000 times more people using python packaging tools than
there are ones following the recent distutils-sig/Donald/Nick verdicts
or tool release notes. And heck, even for me being quite involved in all
this stuff, having written a related PEP, it's really hard to see what's
coming and to prevent breakage for my tools's/projects's users.
Therefore, to be honest, at this point i am almost afraid of what is
released/deployed next in PyPI/Installer land. I'd rather like to
get into a "can't wait to get the next release" mode.
I'd also like to point out this. I think you got bitten by one particular backward
incompatibility and are "Once bitten twice shy". I had a number people asking
me near every day how long until pip 1.4 was coming out because they were
excited for the new changes including the improved pre-release handling.
I've personally gotten or seen more complaints over the naming of a variable
in the config file then I have over any changes we've made. The runner up
to that is the fallout from switching to requiring verified SSL.
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Donald Stufft
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