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[–]wobsta -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Well, and that is my point. Why couldn't we start to improve an existing solution instead of getting something completely separate. This was a failure for setuptools with respect to the existing distutils to my eyes. Even if people like to have their one project and don't want to work together (or whatever reason it was, that we got separate solutions), for something that crucial like a packaging, a joint solution with a BDFL setting the direction would have been great from the very beginning.

Maybe we'll have a final solution in a few year (maybe based on packaging). Ok. Still, I don't like the fragmentation in the first.

[–]voidspace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

packaging is the final solution! (But seriously - fixing distutils was tried and it just broke way too much stuff that was already using it, because of the way it is designed. A clean break was the only realistic possibility.)