It's not an accurate characterization that distutils was removed simply because
it wasn't maintained.
It was as fragile library, and it was difficult to make any changes to it
because a number of things had implemented themselves by reaching into
distutils and randomly monkeypatching various as
On Monday, 3 June 2024 16:27:29 CEST Donald Stufft wrote:
>
> In the interim the packaging toolchain evolved to the point that having
> distutils in the stdlib was no longer of general benefit, and in fact made
> things worse because people had grown accustomed to things like `from
> distutils imp
Hello,
I was in the DPMT back when it was on Alioth and I would like to join
it again. My Salsa login is "federico".
I have read the policy and I accept it:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/blob/master/policy.rst
Thank you!
--
Federico
I remember doing this pull request over a decade ago:
https://github.com/broadinstitute/xtermcolor/pull/12/files#diff-60f61ab7a8d1910d86d9fda2261620314edcae5894d5aaa236b821c7256badd7
to a project that used setuptools + something to download setuptools
to be able to use it.
I fail to see how that
Please add me to the python team (noahm on salsa) so I can help maintain
libcloud and potentially other cloud related packages still under the
python team's umbrella.
Thanks
noah
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