11 Nov
2009
11 Nov
'09
3:35 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Greg Ewing
I don't agree that evolution is better in and of itself than revolution. They're both means to an end -- getting something better than we have now. The problem with distutils is that evolution doesn't seem to have worked. It has just grown randomly with no clear design and ended up painting itself into a corner.
We are making progress in the thread we are having with David C. in the build_ext refactoring. I am suggesting to keep the 'Build_ext refactoring' topic in that thread. Tarek