[Distutils] Announcing the 'Distribute' project

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-07-16 15:29, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:21 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>
>> At 10:29 AM 7/16/2009 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>> One thing I'd like to see for this new project is more built-in
>>> support for the popular revision control systems.
>>
>> Arguably, the existing built-in support is a bug that should be fixed.
>> If SVN support was a plug-in, it could be more easily fixed when stuff
>> changes.
>
> Using a plugin for this is still a pain, but revision control parity
> would still be a good thing, whether that argues for inclusion or
> exclusion in the core.

I suspect one could have implementations in the core that could be overridden by 
plugins. Then you can have the best of both worlds at the cost of some 
additional complexity.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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