[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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).
>

Frankly, I think there's no best moment for this.

We'll need to backport everything we do in packaging/ in distutils2/
(Yeah, painful...)

> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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