[Zope-dev] SVN: zopetoolkit/doc/source/releaseteam/ minutes of ztk releaseteam meeting 11/09

[Tres Seaver]

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On 11/18/2010 05:19 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> On 11/18/10 11:16 , Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
>> +The ZTK would like to use distribute by default.
> 
> Is the distribute project still alive? The reason I ask is that my 
> recent experience is that bugs reported in setuptools are fixed very 
> quickly, while there is no response from the distribute team.

It does look as though development velocity on 'distribute' has slowed
to a pace quite comparable to setuptools, with setuptools having the
more recent release.  The two trackers are at:

 http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues?status=open&status=new&kind=bug&sort=id

 http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/

The bitbucket UI doesn't show recency of issue activity, which would
make the two easier to compare.

I'm -1 on preferring 'distribute' in any overt way in the ZTK.  Folks
who want it can already use it when bootstrapping a buildout::

 $ /path/to/python bootstrap.py --distribute

 or when creating a virtualenv::

 $ /path/to/virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute envdir

The ZTK should not grow any creeping dependencies on 'distribute'.


Tres.
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