[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/20/12 2:53 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Tarek Ziadé<tarek at ziade.org>  wrote:
>> Yeah maybe this subset could be left in 3.3
>>
>> and we'd remove packaging-the-installer part (pysetup, commands, compilers)
>>
>> I think it's a good idea !
> OK, to turn this into a concrete suggestion based on the packaging docs.



> Declare stable, include in 3.3
> ------------------------------------------
>      packaging.version — Version number classes
>      packaging.metadata — Metadata handling
>      packaging.markers — Environment markers
>      packaging.database — Database of installed distributions
I think that's a good subset.

+1 on all of the things you said after

If you succeed on getting the sci people working on "PEP: Distutils 
replacement: Compiling Extension Modules" it will be a big win.