[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Distutils2 1.0a4

[Tarek Ziadé]

Thanks a lot for your hard work and dedication on packaging  !

On 3/13/12 9:37 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On behalf of the distutils2 contributors, I am thrilled to announce the
> release of Distutils2 1.0a4.
>
> Distutils2 is the packaging library that supersedes Distutils. It
> supports distributing, uploading, downloading, installing and removing
> projects, and is also a support library for other packaging tools like
> pip and buildout.  It will be provided as part of Python 3.3; this
> release is a backport compatible with Python 2.5 to 2.7.
>
> Distutils2 1.0a4 contains a number of known bugs, limitations and
> missing features, but we have released it to let users and developers
> download and try it.  This means you!  If you want to report new issues,
> request features or contribute, please read DEVNOTES.txt in the source
> distribution or http://wiki.python.org/Distutils2/Contributing
>
> More alpha releases will be cut when important bugs get fixed during the
> next few months, like Windows or PyPy compatibility.  The first beta is
> planned for June, and 1.0 final for August (to follow Python 3.3.0).
> Until beta, the API is subject to drastic changes and code can get removed.
>
> Basic documentation is at http://docs.python.org/dev/packaging ; it will
> get updated, expanded and improved in the coming months.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Repository: http://hg.python.org/distutils2
> Bug tracker: http://bugs.python.org/ (component "Distutils2")
> Mailing list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig/
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