[Python-Dev] packaging

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:39:55 -0400
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I just wanted to summarize what we've started at the sprint (and
>> hopefully finish 1 to 7 this week):
>>
>> 1/ distutils2 is merged as the "packaging" Python package in the
>> standard library
>
> Why does it get yet another name?
> We already have distutils, setuptools, distribute, distutils2... now
> "packaging"?

For  it makes sense to have a "packaging" namespace in the standard
library, where we'll be able to add more modules, features etc.

"Distutils" becomes a misnomer now that we'll have features like:

- display the list of installed projects
- search projects at PyPI
- ...

And it's also a good way to prevent any conflict with 3.3 : the
standalone version for 2.4 to 3.2 is "distutils2", and people won't
have to deal with the same package being in the stdlib and at PyPI.
(like json vs simplejson, unittest vs unittest2...)

Cheers
Tarek

> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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