On Mar 14, 2011, at 09:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>Why does it get yet another name?
>We already have distutils, setuptools, distribute, distutils2... now
>"packaging"?

We need a unique name for Python 3.3, otherwise third party modules can't be
written to conditionally depend on the batteries-included version in 3.3, or a
standalone backport for older Pythons.

Guido's already pronounced that it will be 'packaging' in 3.3.

-Barry

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