[Distutils] Distutils at the PyCon 2004 sprints
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Wed Mar 17 17:22:17 EST 2004
I've not heard anything about either of the proposed Distutils sprints for
next week. Just as a reminder, these are:
- general distutils improvements and wart smashing
(http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/DistUtils20)
This is generally about avoiding some of the current warts rather than
dealing with major new functionality, with the exception of the PEP 262
(http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0262.html) installation database.
It's hard to get a good sense of what people's priorities are from the
wiki page, but it would certainly be good to knock out some of the more
long-standing warts.
- dependency support
(http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/DistutilsDependencies)
This is Phillip Eby's proposal for adding dependency support to
distutils, including automatic download and installation of required
packages.
I don't know what other people's reaction is to his proposal; aspects
of it are certainly interesting and mesh well with the PEP 262
installation database.
I'd really like to see some improvements happening in either of these areas.
I don't know what it takes to get these sprints to go from proposed to
concrete, or if we can just take space by squatting (unlikely to be well
received ;).
Who else will be at the sprints and willing to spend a day or two on
distutils? In case there aren't enough outstanding distutils tasks, I'll be
glad to propose a few more that I'm going to need to deal with anyway. ;-)
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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