[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

Wed Jun 20 12:39:34 CEST 2012

On 2012年6月20日 12:30:51 +0200
Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
>> >
> > Most of the distutils2 improvements (new PEPs, setup.cfg, etc.) were
> > totally possible in distutils, weren't they?
> I started there, remember ? And we ended up saying it was impossible to 
> continue without
> breaking the packaging world.

"we" were only certain people, AFAIR.
> why would you expect a different datapoint ?

I wasn't expecting a different datapoint, I'm pointing that shipping
packaging in the stdlib would provide a much better exposure.
Regards
Antoine.