[Distutils] command hooks...

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue May 1 20:28:07 CEST 2012


On 1 May 2012 17:40, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> Georg Brandl was trying to herd cats on outstanding PEPs today:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119157.html
>
> Is there a PEP for the "packaging" package?  Is there any sort of unfinished
> business I can help with?

AFAIK, there's no specific PEP for packaging (there are a number of
related PEPs, but nothing specific like a roadmap).

I'm sure Éric can give you much better pointers on what would be
useful, but one issue I've tried to raise a few times, and more
recently Jim Fulton raised here
(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2012-March/018323.html)
is that of binary distribution support in packaging2. I've never had
the time to shepherd a proposal through beyond the "initial debate"
stage, and I know it's not getting high on Éric's list of priorities,
but it would be good to see some movement on this.

I can offer opinions, Windows testing, and assistance, but I really
don't have the time to make this happen. But I honestly believe that
unless packaging has binary distribution support, it won't get
"critical mass", on Windows if nowhere else.

Just a thought - if it's where your interests lie, that would be great.
Paul.


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