[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/20/12 12:39 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 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.
That was the BDFL decision after a language summit. Having tried to 
innovate in Distutils in the past,
I  think it's a very good decision,