[Python-Dev] The fate of Distutils in Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Feb 26 23:13:32 CET 2010

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:44, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

This is a follow-up of the Pycon summit + sprints on packaging. This is what we have planned to do: 1. refactor distutils in a new standalone version called distutils2 [this is done already and we are actively working in the code] 2. completely revert distutils in Lib/ and Doc/ so the code + doc is the same than the current 2.6.x branch 3. leave the new sysconfig module, that is used by the Makefile and the site module The rest of the work will happen in distutils2 and we will try to release a version asap for Python 2.x and 3.x (2.4 to 3.2), and the goal is to put it back in the stdlib in Python 3.3 Distutils in Python will be feature-frozen and I will only do bug fixes there. All feature requests will be redirected to Distutils2. I think the easiest way to manage this for me and for the feedback of the community is to add in bugs.python.org a "Distutils2" component, so I can start to reorganize the issues in there and reassign new issues to Distutils2 when it applies. I assume you want the Distutils2 component to auto-assign to you like Distutils currently does? If so I can add the component for you if people don't object to the new component.

-Brett

Regards Tarek

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