On 13 Nov, 2012, at 17:21, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Le Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:10:30 +0100, Ronald Oussoren a écrit :

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On 13 Nov, 2012, at 16:00, Daniel Holth wrote:

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I want to remove distutils from the standard library.

Why? Distutils may not be perfect, but is usable for basic packages. It could even be enhanced to support these peps and be even more useable, although patches for that would run into the self-imposed freeze of distutils development.

It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to start a project named "distutils2" to build the next-generation distutils library.

Oops :-)

Or carefully enhance distutils itself. Rewriting distutils in one go seems to be too ambitious with the limited resources available to do so. Ronald