[Distutils] distribute D.C. sprint tasks

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 00:24:04 CEST 2008


Day 1 is almost over,

We worked on two elements so far: the mirroring thing, and the terminology one

these are early drafts,

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonPackagingTerminology
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PEP_374

please comment

Tarek


On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the lists of tasks we are going to work on. They are simple.
>
> - PyPI : write a patch to enforce (or display a warning) the source
> distribution to be uploaded. so if a binary distribution or a zipped
> egg is uploaded
>  we are sure we provide the source as well.
>
> - Documentation: write a glossary for the distutils/setuptools/Pypi
> terminology on python.org wiki
>
> - PyPI mirroring: write a PEP to implement a mirroring protocol, where
> mirrors can register at PyPI. Then when a package is uploaded, mirrors
> will be ping through RPC
>  so they know they can eventually get synced.
>
> - setuptools: finish the patch for the multiple index support,  with a
> CPAN-like mechanism on the client side,  with a socket timeout
> managment -
>
> - distutils: code cleaning: better test coverage, remove logging, etc.
>
>
> Tarek
>
> --
> Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org
> Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org
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>



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