[Distutils] Distutils 1.0a1 released

[Carl Meyer]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 20:14, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am +1 to remove package_dir
> 
> It's gonna be a pain it the ass moving all packages from src/, though.
> ;) Maybe it'll be scriptable.

I don't think removing package_dir means enforcing that all packages
have to live in distribution root (at least I hope not). I think it just
means distutils2's setup.cfg needs a syntax for specifying "packages"
that allows specifying a path to the package. One possible such syntax
is here:
http://bitbucket.org/carljm/sample-distutils2-project/src/tip/setup.cfg

Carl