[Distutils] Distribute and zc.buildout + bootstraping file names + release/branches roadmap

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:14 AM 8/5/2009 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>It would be great if we could come up with a
>much smaller install library that multiple packages could share.

I've previously proposed to split out installation stuff (plus 
pkg_resources) to such a library, leaving just the 
setup.py/easy_install aspects in setuptools proper.  This is 
currently still a vaporware proposal, but I've at least done a bit 
more specific code sketching since then.  The original concept notes 
can be found here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-July/012685.html

I don't know if this is exactly what you had in mind, but I expect 
it's at least somewhat similar; your previous request for 
"easy_install as a set of independent functions" was not forgotten.  ;-)