[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:05 AM, David Cournapeau
<david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
[..]
>
> Exactly. The fact that we in numpy consider distutils backward
> compatibility not worth the cost, even though we are most likely the
> most tied up with distutils, is quite telling about the state of affairs
> IMHO.

That doesn't prove Distutils can't evolve. That just shows that numpy
worked on its
side. If the Numpy projects made some refactoring/improvement, why the
project didn't try to push
it back in Distutils itself ?