[Python-Dev] Packaging in Python 2 anyone ? (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Sep 13 18:34:39 CEST 2011

On 13/09/2011 16:57, Éric Araujo wrote:

[snip...] A question: What about distutils2 for Python 3.x? I think we could keep the stdlib codebase compatible with 3.1 and use a semi-automated process to extract cpython3.3/Lib/packaging to distutils2-py3/distutils2 and rename imports. (IIRC PyPI will require us to play games to have both 2.x and 3.x versions of distutils2.)

What I'm doing for unittest2.

  1. I have a script that pulls unittest from mercurial head and then applies patches to it to make it compatible with Python 3.1 - 3.2 and rename it from unittest to unittest2
  2. I have a pypi project called unittestpy3k that holds the Python 3 version of unittest2

Projects using unittest2 for Python 3 then have a dependency on unittest2py3k - but the actual Python package name is unittest2. I only need to maintain a set of patches against unittest on head, rather than a whole branch.

This works pretty well.

All the best,

Michael Foord

Another question: What about the docs? Can we just point people to docs.python.org and tell them to mentally replace packaging with distutils2? If that is judged unacceptable, then I’ll synchronize the docs in the d2 repo, but that’s hours I won’t spend on bugs or features.

Cheers

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