[Pythonmac-SIG] Package manager notes

[Michael Hudson]

amk at amk.ca writes:

> * This might be a good time to work on a package database; there are various
>   other things that could be fixed in Distutils, and maybe it's time for a
>   Distutils 2.0.

Maybe, but that's a whole lot of tedious work.  It would be a bit
easier if we made a new package "distutils2" and didn't have to worry
too much about breaking everyone's setup.py scripts.

And it probably should have a serious design discussion first.  Maybe
a good sprint topic?

Cheers,
mwh

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