[Python-Dev] PEP 384 accepted

[Tarek Ziadé]

2010/12/2 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
> Am 02.12.2010 22:54, schrieb Michael Foord:
>> On 02/12/2010 21:39, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>>> I was told not to touch to Distutils code to avoid any regression
>>>> since it's patched to the bones in third party products. So we decided
>>>> to freeze distutils and add all new features in Distutils2, which is
>>>> at alpha stage now.  So this move seems contradictory to me.
>>> I think it was a bad decision to freeze distutils, and "we" certainly
>>> didn't make that (not any we that includes me, that is). This freeze
>>> made the situation worse.
>>
>> What situation worse?
>
> The "distutils is unmaintained" situation. It's not only unmaintained
> now, but proposed improvements are rejected without consideration, on
> the grounds that they are changes.

I welcome those changes in Distutils2. That's the whole point.