2 Sep
2016
2 Sep
'16
4:28 a.m.
On 2 September 2016 at 09:58, Sylvain Corlay
My point here was that I don't think that the proposed feature has much to do with the concerns that were raised about distutils in general, unless it is decided that incremental improvements to the library even backward compatible will not be accepted anymore.
Agreed. I think your feature is only stalled for distutils by the lack of people sufficiently comfortable with the code to apply it. The suggestions to add it to setuptools are more in the way of practical advice on how to make the feature available, rather than expressions of a policy that "we don't make changes like that in the stdlib". Paul