2009/6/30 Guido van Rossum guido@python.org:
And is there consensus outside of it? (Remember the ipaddr debacle. It's easy for people to miss an important PEP.)
My impression (as someone who does read the distutils SIG, but in all honesty has very little practical interest in distutils internals):
- It's very focused on distutils internals. If it has an impact on end users (as opposed to packagers), it's very hard to discern. The only hint of such a thing is the mention of an uninstall function. But it's only an API. So still no end user impact [1] :-( - The terminology and focus feels setuptools-inspired (my apologies if that's not the case). Expect pushback from setuptools haters... - It's quite dense for the casual reader not familiar with the terminology. I've never managed to read the whole thing through, personally.
I'd suggest two things: - Add a section to the PEP describing the purely end user impact of the changes - Post that to python-list, with a note pointing to the PEP for people who care about distutils details
If that gets no feedback, you've done as much as you can.
Paul.
[1] I'd actually like it if the PEP defined an uninstall command - something like "python -m distutils.uninstall packagename". It can be as minimalist as you like, but I'd like to see it present.