[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format (original) (raw)

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 19:49:56 CEST 2009

On 09/23/2009 10:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

But you are right about the need of making sure every package management project is involved. We should make sure that Enthought, which has its own package management system, is part of that consensus.

Also, I am more concerned of not having enough end users involved in that process. End users would be: any python developer that needs to package his code, or any os packager that needs to package a python distribution for his system. But those are hard to get involved. As one of the people who deals with packaging python modules for distributions, I'm sorry for not having spent more time looking into this. I simply haven't had the time lately. One helpful resource for engaging linux distributions is:

##distros on irc.freenode.net and their mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions

Both are low traffic but people from the various linux distributions are watching and responding on it even if they don't make much noise on their own. Just bear in mind that sometimes they will need to connect you with the right person within their distro rather than being able to give feedback directly.

-Toshio

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