Hi CJ,

I don't think that the issues addressed by bento have been tackled much by anything in the python ecosystem. It is true that binary distribution today is much better than it was in 2008/2009 when I started working on Bento, which means much fewer people need to deal w/ distutils errors on a day to day basis. But distutils is pretty much as bad today as it was 10 years ago.

If I were to start it today, I would have made different choices, as I was still very much a novice when I started bento :) But IMO the main failure is the lack of community around it. I still think the main ideas around it is where distutils2/whatever-it-is-called should go.

David

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:55 PM, CJ Carey <perimosocordiae@gmail.com> wrote:

With the 1.0 release coming up, I figured this is a good time to take the pulse of the community regarding Bento.

The project seems to have been abandoned before reaching stability, and it seems that the core problems it was trying to address have been at least partially fixed by the more official build systems.

If you use Bento and would like to keep using it post 1.0, or if my previous sentence is wrong, please let me know!

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