[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> My own preference would be "setuptools2" with the first release  
> being version number 2.0. This makes it very clear what the package  
> is, solves the PyPI problem and involves less changes in things like  
> buildout (well, a few characters anyway ;-) )

Oh c'mon Chris, you know it /has/ to be named: setup2ls :)

<bikeshed>Seriously though: +1 for a different name</bikeshed>

> Also, what DVCS is being used? I hope it's Hg, otherwise it means  
> another toolset to learn if I want to help out, which means me  
> helping out would be less likely. (I hope you wouldn't see that as a  
> good thing ;-) )

One thing I'd like to see for this new project is more built-in  
support for the popular revision control systems.  I don't mind  
writing and maintaining the bzr part of that, but it's been a pain to  
have to distribute setuptools_bzr as a plugin. :(

-Barry

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