[Distutils] distlib updated with resources API

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 16:01 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
> On 9/26/12 11:58 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> > Tarek Ziadé <tarek <at> ziade.org> writes:
> >
> >> On a side note, since these are the original modules that were taking
> >> out of Python's packaging implementation,
> >> I don't think you can copyright them under your name like what I have
> >> seen in setup.py
> > AFAIK I've only added my copyright to the individual files I've created, but not
> > to any of the files I've copied over from packaging. The plan is to move the
> > project over to hg.python.org at some point, but Antoine suggested (on
> > python-dev) leaving it on BitBucket until it gets a little more mature. I'm fine
> > with that too; there's still a lot to do on it.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Plus, it makes it easier to avoid any licensing headache in a few 
> months/years,
> since any contributor just have to sign the Python contributor agreement.

There are two of us maintaining hg.python.org: Georg and I. So, I don't
know about Georg, but I don't want to maintain repositories for every
third-party library that might one day become part of Python. OTOH, if
Georg wants to handle it, then fine :-)

Regards

Antoine.


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