Thoughts attached.
Yeah that one is great! :) And true.
No, the distutils2 project continues and is still being actively
developed. (distutils2 *is* packaging - the name on PyPI is just
different from the name that will be used when it is added to the
standard library). Bento is a project that aims to tackle part of
distutils that distutils2 hasn't really looked at yet: creating a more
flexible build system (or, more accurately, making it easier to hook
into *existing* build systems rather than defining yet another one).
Ok. Now the distinction is clear. Good to hear disutils2 is still actively developed.
Those PEPs are *already* standards and are actively supported by
external projects today.
I just found the wheel project:
It tries to implement those standards by patching distribute and pip. I run the
demo and I think the resulting package format is just amazing. In a nutshell is
a binary format (extensions get compiled) which in my opinion is really flexible.
I hope it will become standard and will be integrated in the major software someday.