[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > On 3 September 2013 22:20, M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> wrote:
> > IMO, a much better way forward would be to integrate useful setuptools
> > changes right back into distutils, so that the monkey patching
> > no longer happens and python-dev can officially bless those
> > set of changes.
> > 
> > I'm curious about this possibility.
> 
> It seems everyone has the memory of a goldfish here?
> Reintegrating useful third-party features, and generally improving
> distutils, was Tarek's original work on distutils, then distutils2 /
> packaging.
> 
> (Yes, it's a pity it was shot down, since all we are left now are
> pie-in-the sky improvements that may happen 5 years down the road
> for the average user)

Note I'm not *criticizing* those pie-in-the-sky improvements. There's
no false dilemma here. But the interim solution of gradual improvements
would have been very beneficial everyone (including the developers of
long-term changes, since that would spare them the complaints about
the lack of short-term improvements :-)).

Regards

Antoine.