Hi, I am glad to announce the first release of toydist, the 0.0.2 release: http://github.com/cournape/toydist/downloads Toydist is a pythonic, no-nonsense packaging solution for python softwares. The main highlights of this first public release are: * Package description grammar formalized through PLY, the python Lex-yacc package (included in toydist for the time being) * Toymaker, the command line interface to toydist, can install itself Although still very much in infancy, I have succesfully used the conversion procedure on sphinx, jinja and a few python-only Enthought packages. How to help ? ------------- Toydist is experimental, and should not be used for anything production-worthy at this point. There are two main reasons why I have released such a preliminary version: * To get suggestions/comments on the current file format. I believe the current syntax strikes a good balance for human readers/writers, but it cannot be parsed with just regular expressions, which means syntax highlithing may be difficult (the difficulty is to be able to parse arbitary rest for some metadata). The easiest way to get a feeling of the format is to convert your favorite python package, assuming it is simple enough. * The API for package description is still regularly changed, and the command-line interface has no sane API yet, but I certainly welcome suggestions from people interested in writing debian or other builders. I have started documenting toydist, an up-to-date version can be found on http://cournape.github.com/toydist. Example of simple commands may be found in toydist/commands (sdist and install are particularly simple). The focus for 0.0.3 is hook support - the goal is to have an API robust enough so that future toydist code will be based on hooks, as well a basic support for waf or scons-based C builds. cheers, David