[Python-Dev] Package Management - thoughts from the peanut gallery (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 19:12:20 CEST 2009

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

I have taken the commitment to lead these tasks and synchronize the people that are willing to help on this. Good, I'm one of those people,

Great !

sadly my only help may be to ask "how is this bit going to be done?".

I'll work on the wiki this week end for that

The tasks discussed so far are:

- version definition (http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistutilsVersionFight) - egg.info standardification (PEP 376) - metadata enhancement (rewrite PEP 345) - static metadata definition work  (*) These all seem to be a subset of the last one, right?

Sorry I used "task" I should have used "topics".

We are trying to have a list of well-defined, isolated tasks. Theses tasks are built upon the discussions we have in these topics.

The last topic (static metadata) might generate new tasks and/or complete existing tasks.

- PyPI mirroring (PEP 381) I don't see why PyPI isn't just ported to GAE with an S3 data storage bit and be done with it... Offline mirrors for people behind firewalls already have solutions out there...

GAE+S3 is just an implementation imho. We still need a mirroring protocol ala CPAN and features in client softwares to use them. (as defined in 381)

Each one of this task has a leader, except the one with (*). I just got back from travelling, and I will reorganize http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils asap to it is up-to-date. Cool, is this the focal point to track your activities?

Exactly. And Distutils-SIG is the mailing list to discuss in ;)

If you want to work on one of this task or feel there's a new task you can start, please, join Distutils SIG or contact me, Well, I think my "big list" breaks down roughly as tasks, of which I think the stuff you're already doing will hopefully take care of the first 2, but what about the rest. If labour shortage is all that's stopping this, then let me know ;-)

Please discuss these new points in Distutils-SIG

Cheers Tarek

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