[Python-Dev] BDFL delegation for PEP 426 + distutils freeze

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> Le 03/02/2013 07:48, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
>> I vote for removing the "distutils is frozen" principle.
> I’ve also been thinking about that.  There have been two exceptions to
> the freeze, for ABI flags in extension module names and for pycache
> directories.  When the stable ABI was added and MvL wanted to change
> distutils (I don’t know to do what exactly), Tarek stood firm on the
> freeze and asked for any improvement to go into distutils2, and after
> MvL said that he would not contibute to an outside project, we merged d2
> into the stdlib.  Namespace packages did not impact distutils either.
> Now that we’ve removed packaging from the stdlib, we have two Python
> features that are not supported in the standard packaging system, and I
> agree that it is a bad thing for our users.
>
> I’d like to propose a reformulation of the freeze:

This could be common knowledge, but is the current formulation of the
freeze spelled out somewhere?

--Chris