Hi Georg,
I would like to clarify something in order to remove a misleading or confusing statement from the release email:
- The new "packaging" module, building upon the "distribute" and "distutils2" projects and deprecating "distutils"
First, packaging *is* distutils2, modulo a few changesets that I have to port between the codebases. Second, I would remove the mention of distribute: packaging is an implementation of the packaging PEPs which have their origins in setuptools and which have been improved by the community, and it also takes some minor features and ideas from setuptools, but I think that “building upon” is too strong (and mentioning only distribute may hurt the feelings of setuptools authors and users—distutils-sig is a heated place).
My suggestion:
- The new "packaging" module (also known as distutils2, and released standalone under this name), implementing the new packaging formats and deprecating "distutils".
The whatsnew document has the same problem, and also mixes packaging (venv and packaging) with imports (namespace packages), but I did not get a chance to fix it before today, so I probably will after the alpha.
Thanks