
On 6/20/12 2:53 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Tarek Ziadé<tarek@ziade.org> wrote:
Yeah maybe this subset could be left in 3.3
and we'd remove packaging-the-installer part (pysetup, commands, compilers)
I think it's a good idea ! OK, to turn this into a concrete suggestion based on the packaging docs.
Declare stable, include in 3.3 ------------------------------------------ packaging.version — Version number classes packaging.metadata — Metadata handling packaging.markers — Environment markers packaging.database — Database of installed distributions I think that's a good subset.
+1 on all of the things you said after If you succeed on getting the sci people working on "PEP: Distutils replacement: Compiling Extension Modules" it will be a big win.