Greg Ward wrote: > > ... > -1 from me. What's the point of the Distutils if we just throw > everything "useful" into the standard distribution? One way to look at it is vertical versus horizontal. I think that that's how the Java world works (unofficially). If Java is one extreme and ANSI C is on the other, I prefer to err on the Java side (which we probably do). The big issue is configuration management. if we put PIL (or anything else) in the standard distribution we are promising to keep that code in sync with everything else. This is a big boon to users and a big headache for maintainers. The question is when the boon is enough to justify the headache. It's one thing to tell a user: "Just type distutils and everything will magically become available." But they usually come back: "I'm getting an error message about append not taking that many arguments..." or something like that. Libraries breaking libraries is actually the most common case. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "Music is the stuff between the notes." - Claude Debussy
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