[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:30:51 +0200
Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Most of the distutils2 improvements (new PEPs, setup.cfg, etc.) were
> > totally possible in distutils, weren't they?
> I started there, remember ? And we ended up saying it was impossible to 
> continue without
> breaking the packaging world.

"we" were only certain people, AFAIR.

> why would you expect a different datapoint ?

I wasn't expecting a different datapoint, I'm pointing that shipping
packaging in the stdlib would provide a much better exposure.

Regards

Antoine.