On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:07 AM, David Lyon <david.lyon@preisshare.net> wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:19:02 +0100, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
I unfortunately don't have all the time I wish I had to work on this more.
We all know that.
It needs somebody new to take on the challenge.
David, You don't understand at all what is going on I think. You have been keeping sending passive-agressive emails in python-dev and in distutils-sig everytime we mention the work that's going on in Distutils. This is happening since we said we didn't want to integrate your GUI system in Python. When I say "I unfortunately don't have all the time I wish I had to work on this more", it doesn't mean that we need to find somebody "new" to take on the challenge, it means that we can take more help from more people (and that includes you of course). Wether you like it or not, I am maintaining Distutils, so I am trying to coordinate the work that is going on for that matter. And this work is currently organized in several PEPs we are changing everytime someone provides some new feedback and insights. You have started some kind of "counter-PEP" to push another build system, and I really doubt this is useful in any ways. Discussing new ideas is useful of course, but changing Distutils for another build system in the stdlib will not happen, unless its proven to be sucessfully used by the community for some time. I will do at this point what other have been doing at python-dev and just ignore your mails for now on. Tarek