[Python-Dev] PEP 262 - active? (original) (raw)

John Lenton jlenton at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 15:04:38 CEST 2004

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:26:21 +0200, Heiko Wundram <heikowu at ceosg.de> wrote:

Hey all!

Is anybody actively working on PEP 262? I'm currently in the process of implementing something like it for a package I'm writing, and I'd be glad to sponsor the code once it's complete. I've tried to check out what's in the Python CVS sandbox, but can't get it at the moment because of network connectivity issues, and the tracker entries on the bugtracker aren't very helpful either (besides stating that the PEP was abandoned, and later reopened). If there's interest, I'll write up a short text describing what my package can do in addition to what PEP 262 describes, and how it's integrated with distutils.

I just read the pep, and one thing that jumps at me is that most (linux) distributions already have most of the information; at most a (python) distribution -> package name map is needed; everything else can be done by querying the ldistribution's package database. Of course that is ldistribution-specific, but have you given this any thought?

One of the pains of using CPAN on a system that already does package management is that it is usually impossible (or at least very difficult) to keep both in sync; the proposed "package manager installs files" is good, but maybe it can be improved...?

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