[Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)

[Trent Mick]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On that note, didn't ActiveState distribute their version of Python
> with a package manager (PPM)? As far as I know, that was only ever
> supported by ActiveState themselves, no-one else ever built PPM
> packages for their extensions, and it's been quietly dropped in recent
> versions (Google tells me that it vanished around Python 2.3).

Yes, it was there a long time ago. It was dropped around ActivePython 
2.3, as you say, because it wasn't well architected and, at the time, we 
didn't have the resources to maintain it.

However, we've just recently hired a full time employee to (in part) 
start looking at a "PyPM" package manager again -- this time with an 
appropriate architecture. The hope is to have something to show in the 
fall (perhaps sooner).

Trent

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Trent Mick
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