Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python > > It is probably about time it were demoted from that.
Well, that's not a decision that is for ‘debian-python’ to make :-) Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python, because that's the only packaging, distribution, and dependency declaration system the Python standard library supports. Distutils isn't the best, but it is better than Setuptools, which AFAIK are the top two options for Python. Support from the Python standard library is more valuable for us than (as with Setuptools) the absence of that support. I'm all for the Python developers demoting Distutils from the standard library, but only when something better-designed is ready to immediately take its place. Such a replacement would first have to become quite widely-used and well-proven, as well as being better designed, and I don't know of such a contender today. > Not supporting dependency information in a useful way is not really > acceptable today. True, but not relevant for choosing between Setuptools versus Distutils, which is the context of my statement quoted above. -- \ “A hundred times every day I remind myself that […] I must | `\ exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have | _o__) received and am still receiving” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7wy54drugh....@benfinney.id.au
