Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] accept the wheel PEPs 425, 426, 427

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

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. Ronald