On 6/19/12 11:46 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: ...
I don’t think (a) would give us enough time; we really want a few months (and releases) to hash out the API (most notably with the pip and buildout developers) and clean the bdist situation. Likewise (c) would require developer (my) time that is currently in short supply. (b) also requires time and would make development harder, not to mention probable user pain. This leaves (d), after long reflection, as my preferred choice, even though I disliked the idea at first (and I fully expect Tarek to feel the same way).
Yeah I feel the same way. +1 for (d). I had unfortunately no time lately. Thanks for picking up things. We want a solid distutils replacement, and I think we wrote solid PEPs and seemed to have find consensus for most issues in the past two years. So I prefer to hold it and have a solid implementation in the stldib. The only thing I am asking is to retain ourselves to do *anything* in distutils and continue to declare it frozen, because I know it will be tempting to do stuff there... Cheers Tarek