[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Alexis Métaireau]

On 20/06/2012 14:53, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 3.4 PEP: Standard library package downloader (pysetup)
> ----------------------------------
>      # Amongst other things, this needs to have a really good security
> story (refusing to install unsigned packages by default, etc)
>      packaging.depgraph — Dependency graph builder
>      packaging.pypi — Interface to projects indexes
>      packaging.pypi.client — High-level query API
>      packaging.pypi.base — Base class for index crawlers
>      packaging.pypi.dist — Classes representing query results
>      packaging.pypi.simple — Crawler using the PyPI “simple” interface
>      packaging.pypi.xmlrpc — Crawler using the PyPI XML-RPC interface
>      packaging.tests.pypi_server — PyPI mock server
>      packaging.fancy_getopt — Wrapper around the getopt module  # Why
> does this exist?
I'm okay and willing to work on this part. I started a full review of 
the code I wrote years ago, and which clearly needs some cleaning.
Alos, I'm not sure to understand what having a PEP to manage this means: 
should I describe all the API in a text document (with examples) so we 
can discuss this and validate before doing the changes/cleanings to the API?

Alexis