[Python-Dev] Reminder: Distutils vs Distutils2 (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 00:05:12 CET 2010

Hello,

I have seen some efforts recently to improve Distutils in the standard library,

Just a quick reminder of the status of Distutils: it's frozen and is just being bug fixed at this time. The work I done last year was reverted and pushed to Distutils2. A lot of work has been done since then, and we had 4 GSOC students working this summer on Distutils2.

It's backward-incompatible, so we can remove the things we don't like and add new things w/o suffering from backward compatibility pains.

So if you want to improve the tool, or if you have some pending changes to Distutils, I would encourage you to join the Distutils2 effort and not to waste time on Distutils anymore. The patches that did not make it to Distutils can still be added in Distutils2, for most of them.

The workflow we currently use to change the code is as follow and make it easy for everyone to contribute:

  1. clone http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distutils2
  2. discuss / propose a patch on IRC (#distutils - Freenode) or on the dedicated mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging)
  3. I review and merge all changes at bitbucket, then push them on http://hg,python.org/distutils2

Crazy ideas are welcome. "setup.py" is gone in d2 for instance ;)

Thanks !

Regards. Tarek

-- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org

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