On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Carl Banks<pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 30, 12:41 pm, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to propose this PEP for inclusion into Python 2.7 / 3.2 >> >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/ >> >> It has been discussed a lot already in the distutils-SIG, but new >> feedbacks are welcome >> >> there's an implementation prototype here >> :http://bitbucket.org/tarek/pep376/src/tip/pkgutil.py > > +1 > > This seems to be a well-designed solution that corrects the ad-hoc- > ness of installation while keeping its effects on existing tools > small. > > I hate those egg-info files but I would be very happy if they'd at > least always be in an accounted-for place. Maybe I'd even consider > making use of them some day. > > As for setuptools, I'm sure it will accommodate the change and > probably improve itself in the process. (And if the setuptools > doesn't change then some other tool will grow into its niche; either > way it'd be an improvement.) >
Yes exactly, the plan is to try to make distutils a reference layer for third party package managers and if possible to become a "smaller" package later on the road. Cheers Tarek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
