[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ?

[Michael Foord]

On 13/09/2011 16:57, Éric Araujo wrote:
> [snip...]
> A question: What about distutils2 for Python 3.x?  I think we could keep
> the stdlib codebase compatible with 3.1 and use a semi-automated process
> to extract cpython3.3/Lib/packaging to distutils2-py3/distutils2 and
> rename imports.  (IIRC PyPI will require us to play games to have both
> 2.x and 3.x versions of distutils2.)

What I'm doing for unittest2.

1) I have a script that pulls unittest from mercurial head and then 
applies patches to it to make it compatible with Python 3.1 - 3.2 and 
rename it from unittest to unittest2
2) I have a pypi project called unittestpy3k that holds the Python 3 
version of unittest2

Projects using unittest2 for Python 3 then have a dependency on 
unittest2py3k - but the actual Python package name is unittest2. I only 
need to maintain a set of patches against unittest on head, rather than 
a whole branch.

This works pretty well.

All the best,

Michael Foord

> Another question: What about the docs?  Can we just point people to
> docs.python.org and tell them to mentally replace packaging with
> distutils2?  If that is judged unacceptable, then I’ll synchronize the
> docs in the d2 repo, but that’s hours I won’t spend on bugs or features.
>
> Cheers
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