Hello,

I've cut a release of Distutils2 (that was planned for May 1st).

This release can't be used in production, is under-documented, but has cool isolated features that can be already used in your projects:

- features added during the last year, like the "check" command - a find_packages() function. extracted from setuptools but that can take several root paths. - a metadata reader/writer compatible with all metadata flavors (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) - see http://packages.python.org/Distutils2/metadata.html - a version module that implements PEP 376 - no doc yet ;)

Also, we have implemented PEP 345 on PyPI side. You can see for example the project urls in a box on the right side of the page.

Release schedule:

1.0a2 - 2010-05-28 (Python 2.7rc1 and GSOC starts) 1.0b1 - 2010-06-25 (Python 2.7 final) 1.0b2 - 2010-07-17 (GSOC Mid-term) 1.0c1 - 2010-07-30 (GSOC Ends) 1.0 final - 2010-08-15

Feedback is welcome !

Regards Tarek