[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:46:58 +0200
Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljebotn at astro.uio.no> wrote:
> > The other thing is, the folks in distutils2 and myself, have zero
> > knowledge about compilers. That's why we got very frustrated not to see
> > people with that knowledge come and help us in this area.
> 
> Here's the flip side: If you have zero knowledge about compilers, it's 
> going to be almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion about a 
> compilation PEP.

If a PEP is being discussed, even a packaging PEP, it involves all of
python-dev, so Tarek and Éric not being knowledgeable in compilers is
not a big problem.

> The necessary prerequisites in this case is not merely "knowledge of 
> compilers". To avoid repeating mistakes of the past, the prerequisites 
> for a meaningful discussion is years of hard-worn experience building 
> software in various languages, on different platforms, using different 
> build tools.

This is precisely the kind of knowledge that a PEP is aimed at
distilling.

Regards

Antoine.