I could make it this time. I was considering submitting a talk about a library I have been working on recently for dependency solving. Would that fall into what you had in mind ? It is designed to be fairly agnostic toward metadata format, installation scheme, etc... It handles arbitrary dependency, the concept of replaces/obsolete, and provides. The current code live at https://github.com/enthought/depsolver I haven't announced yet because it still needs some improvements, but a similar design has been proved to work fairly well for php (composer), OpenSuse (libzypp) and considered for Fedora ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF). David On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

The PyCon submission deadline is just a few days away, and I'm planning to submit a packaging Q&A panel again (same concept as the one this year, but with a further 12 months of progress to report).

Before I do that, though, I just wanted to check there would be at least a few other distutils-sig denizens around that I could dragoon into participating.

While it seems like a pretty safe bet, I don't see any reason to rely on assumptions when I don't need to :)

Cheers, Nick.

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