[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:16:21 +0000 (UTC)
Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Ideally, if you could push this to hg.python.org/distutils2
> > (overwriting the existing stuff).
> 
> Okay, done. I've overwritten existing files and added new ones, only
> removing/renaming things like index -> pypi and mkcfg -> create. I haven't
> touched existing code e.g. the top-level test scripts or the _backport
> directory. The added test_distutils2.py is what I used to run the tests.

Impressive work!
That said, I'm not sure it was the best moment to backport, since
test_packaging currently fails under Windows (I think Éric is supposed
to look at it).

Regards

Antoine.