[Distutils] Distutils 1.0a1 released

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu May 6 21:17:57 CEST 2010


At 08:31 PM 5/6/2010 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 20:14, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am +1 to remove package_dir
>
>It's gonna be a pain it the ass moving all packages from src/, though.

Oh, having a src/ or lib/ root isn't a problem, IMO.  I just don't 
think package_dir should allow *multiple* roots.

Most people who are actually using that feature (AFAICT) are just 
confused about how Python packaging is supposed to work, rather than 
actually needing multiple roots.



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