[Distutils] Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

[Jim Fulton]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 06:54 PM, PJ Eby wrote:
>> Jason Coombs (head of the Distribute project) and I are working on
>> merging the bulk of the improvements distribute made into the
>> setuptools code base.  He has volunteered to take over maintenance of
>> setuptools, and I welcome his assistance.
>
> This merge is very good news for Python packaging. Kudos and thanks to
> you and Jason.
>
> This also seems like an appropriate opportunity to say: thank you for
> building the first working packaging system for Python (the one that all
> popular packaging tools are still based on), and for all the work you've
> put into it over the years.

Yup. Well said.

Jim

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