[Python-Dev] BDFL pronouncement?

[Georg Brandl]

Chris Withers schrieb:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> I'm saying that I don't expect setuptools 0.7 to appear before Tarek's
>> Distribute is mature and in widespread use. IOW I support Tarek's fork
>> and suggest nobody hold their breath waiting for setuptools 0.7.
> 
> Well, if this was the BDFL pronouncement that a lot of people have taken 
> it to be, does that allow Martin von Lewis to give the keys to 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools to the "distribute" developers, 
> so we can get on and use the original "setuptools" name without all the 
> confusion and hackery needed to make "distribute" work?

That's absurd.  There's a certain area where Guido can make pronouncements,
but third-party packages is not it.  Even if they're hosted on python.org
infrastructure.

Georg

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