[Distutils] distlib updated with resources API

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 9/27/12 4:28 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 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 :-)

Since I see distutils2, unittest2, stackless and many users repo in there,
Please define the exact rules here - rather than you willingness to do 
the benevolent work.

and what you mean by maintaining an extra repo exactly.