[Python-Dev] Python Package Management Roadmap in Python Releases (original) (raw)

Daniel Fetchinson fetchinson at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 28 12:01:36 CET 2009

(*) Remember, however, that Tarek and work on Distribute, and also on bringing pieces of setuptools/Distribute functionality into distutils. But if that's the case then why not work on any third party tool..? like pip or setuptools? It seems are very longwinded process if the only way to work on python is to work on distutils but before doing that you have to first work on distribute and then wait for all the changes to work their way back up the chain.. Actually, I have finally worked out what I want. That is shell support in the python windows distribution so that you can right click an .egg and install it. I don't see how that can be achieved by following the workprocess that you describe above.

As has been said by many, you are entirely welcome to work on whatever tool you think is useful. Once you are done you are again welcome to distribute your tool or application to users and see how many users are happy with it. Once you are done with this step as well, you are again encouraged to come back to python-dev and say:

"In the last X months my app/tool became very popular in the python community. There are Y developers working on the app/tool and there are Z happy users. I'd suggest including it in the python stdlib or I'd suggest coordinating the releases of my app/tool with that of python."

At this point a useful conversation can start. Please note that a similarly useful conversation is impossible to take place before all the above steps have been completed.

HTH, Daniel

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