[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Fri Mar 27 21:48:24 CET 2009
On 2009-03-27 20:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
>> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> On 2009-03-27 04:19, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>> - keep distutils, but start deprecating certain higher-level
>>>> functionality in it (e.g. bdist_rpm)
>>>> - don't try to provide higher-level functionality in the stdlib, but
>>>> instead let third party tools built on top of these core APIs compete
>>> Should this be read as:
>>>
>>> - remove bdist_rpm from the stdlib and let it live on PyPI
>>>
>>> ?
>> As one of the people who proposed this, I think it means: move bdist_rpm,
>> bdist_msi, etc. out of distutils, but provide some of them with the standard
>> Python installation. I'm certain that as part of the refactoring and
>> simplification of distutils we'll gradually move the existing bdist_*
>> commands into separate, stand-alone "things" (scripts, callable modules, or
>> something). We'll need to do this if only for testing, so we may as well
>> make them work.
>
> One of the motivations for deprecating this (and for using this
> specific example) was that Matthias Klose, the Python packager for
> Debian, said he never uses bdist_rpm.
Why would a Debian developer want to use bdist_rpm ? Perhaps you
meant a bdist_deb command, but that's not part of the stdlib
distutils.
More importantly:
Why is the non-use of a command by a single Python developer enough
motivation to remove a useful feature of distutils that's been in
use by many others for years ?
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