[Distutils] setuptools 8 changes are great, but ...

[Donald Stufft]

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> 
> +1 - I think thats a great idea. We've had to pin < setuptools 8 in
> the OpenStack ecosystem too.

As far as I’m aware, Openstack is just about ready to unpin setuptools. I believe
the only thing holding it back is a pbr change.

> 
> It would have been nice to offer some period of time where the cases
> which were going to change would have warned. I realise thats
> non-trivial, but this is systemic infrastructure at the core of our
> dependency graph - everything that expresses requirements is affected.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On 16 December 2014 at 07:27, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> I think the changes in version management in setuptools 8 are a great
>> step forward,
>> but I think the transition is going to hurt a lot.
>> 
>> For buildout, I'm thinking of of releasing 2.3.1 that reverts the
>> changes in 2.3 and
>> adds a requirement for setuptools <8 to give more time to respond to
>> these  changes.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
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