[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/21/12 6:44 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes. At the very least, there will be updated development snapshots
>> (which are what buildout uses anyway).
>>
>> (Official releases are in a bit of a weird holding pattern.
>> distribute's versioning scheme leads to potential confusion: if I
>> release e.g. 0.6.1, then it sounds like it's a lesser version than
>> whatever distribute is up to now.  OTOH, releasing a later version
>> number than distribute implies that I'm supporting their feature
>> enhancements, and I really don't want to add new features to 0.6...  but
>> don't have time right now to clean up all the stuff I started in the 0.7
>> line either, since I've been *hoping* that the work on packaging would
>> make 0.7 unnecessary.  And let's not even get started on the part where
>> system-installed copies of distribute can prevent people from
>> downloading or installing setuptools in the first place.)
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>
> Welp, I don't want to get in the middle of that whole mess.  But maybe 
> the distribute folks would be kind enough to do a major version bump 
> in their next release; e.g. 1.67 instead of 0.67.  That said, I don't 
> think anyone would be confused by overlapping version numbers between 
> the two projects. 
Oh yeah no problem, if Philip backports all the things we've done like 
Py3 compat, and bless more people to maintain setuptools, we can even 
discontinue distribute !

If not, I think you are just being joking here -- we don't want to go 
back into the lock situation we've suffered for many years were PJE is 
the only maintainer then suddenly disappears for a year, telling us no 
one that is willing to maintain setuptools is able to do so. (according 
to him)


> It's known that they have been diverging for a while.
Yeah the biggest difference is Py3 compat, other than that afaik I don't 
think any API has been removed or modified.


In my opinion, distribute is the only project that should go forward 
since it's actively maintained and does not suffer from the bus factor.