On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Éric Araujo
wrote: “find a PEP dictator and propose changes”. And when I started the thread about removing packaging in 3.3, hundreds of replies discussed changing the whole distutils architecture, splitting the project, exploring new systems, etc.,
Yes, yes, but that's just the same old drama that pops up every time this is discussed with the same old arguments all over again. We'll never get anywhere if we care about *that*.
The way to go forward is via PEPs, fix them if needed, implement in a separate package, stick into stdlib once it works.
//Lennart
I'm happy to note that as of version 0.6.28 distutils (the setuptools fork) can now consume PEP 345 / 376 "Database of Installed Python Distributions" installations. Entry points could probably go in as an extension to the metadata, but at the moment they work as entry_points.txt with no changes and would be harmlessly ignored by "import packaging".