20 Jun
2012
20 Jun
'12
11:20 a.m.
On 06/20, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Let's make things clear: packaging is suffering from a lack of developer involvement,
Absolutely. And to be more precise: solid hands-on leadership. Eric wrote it in his original mail: both packaging maintainers are burned out/busy. That’s a state that is very unlikely to attract more developers – myself included.
and a lack of user interest.
Maybe I'm getting you wrong here, but ISTM that proper packaging is in the short list on nearly everybody’s “things I wish they'd fix in Python”.