[Distutils] Mutual recursion between setuptools and distutils with Python 2.7

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> If I fork setuptools to fix those problem, I will have to release it
>> under another name,
>> and ask people to change their setup.py file.
>
> Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate a bit, but a distribution doesn't have to
> be named "setuptools" to provide a Python package named "setuptools" ;)

Yes, so this will somehow overwrite an existing installation of setuptools

>
>> I think the solution is that Phillip bless someone that have time to
>> spend on it,
>> to work on fixing those problems in setuptools.
>
> It seems to be the issue here: PJE accepting to delegate maintenance to another
> person or group of people. This would be a reasonable attitude.

+1

>
> Otherwise someone *will* have to fork it eventually... There's no third
> alternative, too many people are relying on it right now.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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