On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Paul Moore
On 7 June 2010 20:20, Ian Bicking
wrote: distutils2 won't be in 2.7 at least, and any packaging system not available for Python 2 would be irrelevant.
I find it hard to interpret this in any way that doesn't pretty much imply "Python 3 is irrelevant". While I disagree with that, I suspect it isn't what you mean. So can you clarify?
It's kind of a moot point as Tarek isn't planning to only support Python 3. But developing packaging libraries for *only* Python 3 would mean that an alternate ecosystem would have to continue to support Python 2, and that alternate ecosystem would produce superior tools because that's where all the users actually are. For the next few years at least Python 3 needs to ride on Python 2's coat tails if it's going to keep up. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org