[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/21/12 7:56 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> ...
>> 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.
> Yeah the biggest difference is Py3 compat, other than that afaik I don't
>
> I'm not too interested in the drama/history of the fork situation
You are the one currently adding drama by asking for a new setuptools 
release and saying distribute is diverging.


> so I don't care whether setuptools has the fix or distribute has it or 
> both have it, but being able to point at some package which doesn't 
> prevent folks from overriding sys.path ordering using PYTHONPATH would 
> be a good thing.
>
It has to be in Distribute if we want it in most major Linux distros.

And as I proposed to PJE I think the best thing would be to have a 
single project code base, working with Py3 and receiving maintenance 
fixes with several maintainers.

Since it's clear we're not going to add feature in any of the projects, 
I think we can safely trust a larger list of maintainers, and just keep 
the project working until the replacement is used

> - C
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