[Distutils] Differences in PEP386 and setuptools

Donald Stufft donald.stufft at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 04:46:26 CEST 2012


On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> The tools that people use to install a Python package sort it before
> alpha and have for many years. That seems to be a pretty good argument
> in favor, all other things considered.
> 
Yes this is what I've been trying to say, I agree that in a clean room implementation
the difference here would be mostly bikeshedding, however since it is a bikeshed
then we should endeavor to keep the existing bikeshed instead of switching. 

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