[Distutils] Distutils work, roadmap

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:
>
> Tarek,
>
> I wouldn't take "feedback" as all bad....
>
> Indirectly, it seems like you are telling people not to report their
> experience. Indirectly, it seems like you are discouraging thinking
> about what could be done to improve things.

I am encouraging people to work with the people that have started
to work on various topics durong Pycon

>
> Here, we have a popular saying "Nothing ever gets fixed if people
> don't complain."
>
> A roadmap is a good idea...
>
> I think distutils needs one...
>


The rough roadmap was expressed during pycon

main page : http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils

main topics:

- have a standard version comparison API -
http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistutilsVersionFight
- standardize egg-info: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StandardizeEggInfo
- finalize the new PEP 345 - http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Metadata
- work on the static metadata concept -
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/StaticMetadata
- work on extendding commands -
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/ManifestPluginSystem/Draft


> David
>
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:34:06 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Remainder about Distutils:
>>
>> - we did a summit at Pycon about distutils
>> - some people started to work on various tasks (PEPs, etc)
>>
>> Can everyone here who says "distutils sucks" "setuptools sucks",
>> "let's rewrite them from scratch" hear that:
>>
>> Just join the work in progress, help on the PEP, uses cases, and stop
>> whining about the situation !!!!
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>
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