2009/11/30 P.J. Eby
At 07:16 PM 11/30/2009 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
Well, that sort of sucks. And this is my motivation for bundling the `pkg_resources` from Distribute. The last thing I want is having my software fail for my users because of setuptools while I have Distribute installed locally and can't see the bug on my computer.
That's *really* unlikely. Setuptools' runtime functionality (i.e., pkg_resources) has an extremely low bug count. There have actually been more new pkg_resources bugs in Distribute's version of it (due to their changes) than there are outstanding reported bugs in the original pkg_resources.
As I said earlier, we've had our share of bugs because we needed to make Distribute work in some particular environments, but that was bootstraping issues we've fixed. And if we have more we will fix them and release another version of Distribute. Those bugs have existed because you didn't open setuptools to more maintainers, and we had to find some strategy to bypass you. They are working good now, and now we are just fixing original bugs. Some of those bugs was also due to the fact that you introduced So I am afraid your statement is incorrect. We have fixed for instance a bug in pkg_resources that was making it fail in GAE. And there are more bugs that will be fixed before you release the 12th pre-release of your 0.6 version.