[Distutils] distlib updated with resources API

[Paul Moore]

On 27 September 2012 15:01, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
> I think it's perfectly fine to have hg.python.org/distlib and do what you
> described.
>
> It can mature there - it does not bother cpython or other repositories.

One advantage of distlib being on bitbucket is that anyone can fork it
and create pull requests. I've been doing that recently on a number of
projects, and it's a very efficient workflow. I don't know how the
workflow would go if hg.python.org was used, but I'd be much less
likely to contribute code if I had to create a patch, submit it via
the tracker, and manually maintain it in a local copy of the code
until it gets accepted.

Maybe it's possible to integrate hg.python.org with bitbucket - I see
bitbucket allows you to create a repo by forking an externally hosted
Mercurial repository, but I've never tried it, and I don't know if
pull requests would work.

Paul.