[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Tres Seaver]

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On 08/30/2013 09:57 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
> One of the most important packaging insights to understand is that 
> distutils is in fact worse than setuptools. It is badly outdated, 
> poorly extensible, and too complex to ever re-implement in a 
> compatible way. It is not better before the monkey patching. In a 
> perfect world it should be removed from the standard library too 
> except that removing distutils would be too impractical.

<snip>

> If you can believe that distutils, not setuptools, is the problem we 
> are trying to recover from, then the monkeypatching strategy may make 
> more sense.

Amen!


Tres.
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