[Distutils] Remove distutils, was: red, green, refactor ...

[Thomas Güttler]

Am 22.10.2015 um 01:10 schrieb Donald Stufft:
> On October 21, 2015 at 7:05:59 PM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș (contact at ionelmc.ro) wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Vinay Sajip
>> wrote:
>>   
>>>
>>> I've thought about the migration path with distil, which uses a
>>> declarative metadata format (superset of PEP-426 as it was a while ago)
>>> where the actual metadata is extracted from setup.py files in releases
>>> already on PyPI. This works well for simple distributions which don't do
>>> anything fancy in setup.py, such as extending build commands to create
>>> files on the fly which are then installed etc. In my early testing, distil
>>> (which uses no distutils or setuptools code) could install and package
>>> distributions which were pure-Python as well as package, build and install
>>> ones with C extensions and even Fortran extensions. I haven't done much
>>> work on it for a while due to other commitments, but when I had the time to
>>> work on it, I noted precious little interest from distutils-sig (yes, I
>>> know we're all volunteers, but one person can only do so much).
>>   
>>   
>> What does distil do to achieve this? A setuptools polyfill? Just parsing
>> setup.py and inspecting file layout?
>>   
>> Is there any code for this or you're just talking about an idea? I couldn't
>> find any distil project in https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/ …
> 
> If I remember correctly distil was not OSS at all, it was distributed as a runnable zip file and if you unzipped it there wasn’t a license at all (or perhaps it was all rights reserved?). I forget the exact details but I recall unzipping it to take a look, seeing it wasn’t OSS and closing it after that.

Hi Donald,

If distil is good software, it's sad that there is no licence. Maybe there is an mail adress to contact
the orignal author?

Most authors feel proud if they get positive feedback.

Regards,
  Thomas Güttler




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