[Python-Dev] a new setuptools release?
Chris Withers
chris at simplistix.co.uk
Tue Oct 6 15:45:31 CEST 2009
Hi Phil,
It's almost a week since I made this offer. I haven't heard anything
from you. If I've missed anything please let me know and I'll track it
down, otherwise I hope you can have a look at this some time soon.
cheers,
Chris
Chris Withers wrote:
> P.J. Eby wrote:
>> Here's what actually happened, if anyone cares. Tarek and friends
>> announced a fork of setuptools. I reviewed the work and saw that --
>> for the most part -- I was happy with it, and opined as how I might be
>> willing to bless the the "package inquisition" team as official
>> maintainers of the 0.6 branch of setuptools, so that I could work on
>> the fun bits I've long planned for 0.7, but never felt free to start
>> on while there was so much still needing to be done on 0.6.
>
> If this offer is still available, I'd lake to take you up on it.
> I'd be more than willing to merge changes on the 0.6 distribute branch
> back into the setuptools codebase and do whatever is needed to get a new
> setuptools release out.
>
> Why? Because there are a *lot* of copies of ez_setup.py and buildout's
> bootstrap.py that will need replacing if it doesn't happen. I think it'd
> be better for the python community all round if setuptools just
> continued in maintenance mode until whatever-ends-up-in-the-core exists
> and people want to use...
>
> I'm happy to submit to whatever supervision is needed for you to trust
> me to do this, and I promise to be as careful as I can with this. I
> *know* how important this is and want to make it work...
>
>> All I want is for good stuff to happen for setuptools users and Python
>> users in general, so I don't think all the suspicion and backbiting is
>> merited.
>
> Fine, if that's true, I apologize (even spelled correctly!) for any
> previous involvement in this, but please help me help you achieve your
> aims...
>
> To put this into a way that makes sense to me: I'm volunteering to keep
> distribute 0.6 and setuptools 0.6 in sync, no more, no less, and try and
> keep that as uncontroversial as possible, and get setuptools 0.6
> releases out to match distribute 0.6 releases as soon as I can.
>
> Again, I feel I need to stress that the *only* reason I want to do this
> is to bring the benefits of the distribute work to the existing
> setuptools codebase, with appropriate attribution if that makes a
> difference.
>
> Apologies if any of this is offensive to anyone. For once (really!) I
> really mean that :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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