[Distutils] Fork mess

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:50 PM 7/19/2009 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:13:25 -0700, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>2009/7/19 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
>>>I'm actually kind of hoping that if I make Discovery nice enough,
>>>somebody
>>>else will refactor setuptools to use it.  ;-)  (Or just replace
>>>setuptools
>>>with something better.)
>>We hope that too. But we don't think Discovery will be nice enough if
>>only you work on it. That is after all the greatness of open source:
>>It enables people from all around the world cooperate to make
>>something much greater than each one can create by himself. We can
>>sure use your experience, insight and help. And you can use our work
>>time. Discovery can become way greater if we work together instead of
>>each by ourself.
>
>+1
>
>I'm already sensing some vague inconvenience .. distutils, setuptools,
>Distribute, Discovery??? Too much for a language that boasts about having
>only one obvious way to do it.
>
>Is it not sensible to combine the efforts put into Distribute and
>Discovery? Call Discovery 'Distribute 2.0' (future work) while we work on
>stabilizing setuptools as Distribute 1.0?
>
>If it was me - I'd certainly do it and that wouldn't jeopardize the
>potential fun involved.

Already, just this bit where strangers on the internet discuss how I 
should spend my spare time for their benefit is making the whole idea 
less fun.  If people want to tell me how I should spend my time, they 
can pay me.  (Otherwise, they can ask nicely, instead of lecturing.)