[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ?

[Chris McDonough]

I'll throw this out there.. why is it going to have a different name on
python2 than on python3?

- C

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 22:30 +0000, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > IOW, the task to do is:
> > 
> > 1/ copy packaging and all its stdlib dependencies in a standalone project
> > 2/ rename packaging to distutils2
> > 3/ make it work under older 2.x and 3.x (2.x would be the priority)  <====
> > 4/ release it, promote its usage
> > 5/ consolidate the API with the feedback received
> > 
> > I realize it's by far the less interesting task to do in packaging,
> > but it's by far one of the most important
> 
> Okay, I had a bit of spare time today, and here's as far as I've got:
> 
> Step 1 - done.
> Step 2 - done.
> Step 3 - On Python 2.6 most of the tests pass:
> 
> Ran 322 tests in 12.148s
> 
> FAILED (failures=3, errors=4, skipped=39)
> 
> See the detailed test results (for Linux) at https://gist.github.com/1152791
> 
> The code is at https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/du2/
> 
> stdlib dependency code is either moved to util.py or test/support.py as
> appropriate. You need to test in a virtualenv with unittest2 installed. No work
> has been done on packaging the project.
> 
> I'm not sure if I'll have much more time to spend on this, but it's there in
> case someone else can look at the remaining test failures, plus Steps 4 and 5;
> hopefully I've broken the back of it :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vinay Sajip
> 
> 
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