[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Wed Jun 20 01:34:14 CEST 2012

On 06/19/2012 05:46 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

Hi all,

We need to make a decision about the packaging module in Python 3.3. Please read this message and breathe deeply before replying :)

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With beta coming, a way to deal with that unfortunate situation needs to be found. We could (a) grant an exception to packaging to allow changes after beta1; (b) keep packaging as it is now under a provisional status, with due warnings that many things are expected to change; (c) remove the unstable parts and deliver a subset that works (proposed by Tarek to the Pyramid author on distutils-sig); (d) not release packaging as part of Python 3.3 (I think that was also suggested on distutils-sig last month).

I think it'd be very wise to choose (d) here. We've lived so long without a credible packaging story that waiting one (or even two) more major release cycles isn't going to make a huge difference in the long run but including a version of packaging now which gets fixed in a rush would probably end up muddying the already dark waters of Python software distribution.

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