[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On 09/23/2009 10:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> But you are right about the need of making sure every package management
> project is involved. We should make sure that Enthought,
> which has its own package management system, is part of that consensus.
> 
> Also, I am more concerned of not having enough end users involved in
> that process.
> End users would be: any python developer that needs
> to package his code, or any os packager that needs to package a python
> distribution
> for his system. But those are hard to get involved.
> 
As one of the people who deals with packaging python modules for
distributions, I'm sorry for not having spent more time looking into
this.  I simply haven't had the time lately.  One helpful resource for
engaging linux distributions is:

##distros on irc.freenode.net and their mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions

Both are low traffic but people from the various linux distributions are
watching and responding on it even if they don't make much noise on
their own.  Just bear in mind that sometimes they will need to connect
you with the right person within their distro rather than being able to
give feedback directly.

-Toshio