[Distutils] packaging in python 3.3 (was Re: command hooks...)

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 5/13/12 8:45 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 12:40 PM, Chris McDonough 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?
>
> Let's try this again.  If distutils2/packaging is meant to actually be 
> part of Python 3.3, I think it needs some documentation and 
> implementation loving.  Is there a list of outstanding issues that 
> need resolution?  I'm willing to row on them, but I need some direction.
>
> I can't really see packaging being included in Python 3.3 without a 
> good bit of work being put into it.  Am I mistaken?

No you're not, we're quite late on what we need to finish -- I am unable 
to spend time on this these days, I defer directions to Eric.

Maybe we could organize regular sprints to try to finish this



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