[Distutils] Upcoming changes to PEP 426/440

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 30, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
> 
>> I'm not worried about the speed or performance, I'm worried about how
>> annoying it is to write a tool that processes it.
> 
> Quite possibly I misunderstood the thrust of your argument, but the point of
> distlib is to take care of those kinds of low-level details, rather than
> having multiple packaging tools reimplement that processing you refer to. Of
> course people are free to not use distlib, but if I'm wasting my time then
> it would be nice if people would tell me :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vinay Sajip
> 
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I'm not knocking the work you've done on distlib at all :) I just don't think it's existence means we shouldn't worry about the user friendliness of the API if someone doesn't use it. Maybe you think a single list is more user-friendly. That's fine for you to think that, we can agree to disagree on that :)

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