[Python-Dev] BDFL delegation for PEP 426 (PyPI metadata 1.3)

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/03/2013 08:09 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> I'm sure it is perfectly possible to evolve and bugfix distutils 
> without breaking distribute. What's more, distribute is actually 
> maintained and can evolve to accomodate the fixes.

I wouldn't be on that proposition:  there are a lot of burnouts down that
rabbit hole.

> As for setuptools (as opposed to distribute), I don't think we should 
> care anymore.

Yes, you need to care.  It is *still* true today that distribute and
setuptools remain largely interchangeable, which is the only thing that
makes distribute viable, in the ecosystem sense.



Tres.
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