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

Tarek Ziadé tarek at ziade.org
Wed Jun 20 11:17:13 CEST 2012

On 6/20/12 11:05 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tarek Ziadé<tarek at ziade.org> wrote:

So I prefer to hold it and have a solid implementation in the stldib. The only thing I am asking is to retain ourselves to do anything in distutils and continue to declare it frozen, because I know it will be tempting to do stuff there... That policy has been a bit annoying. Gentoo has been carrying patches forever to improve compilation with C++ stuff (mostly about correctly passing on environment variables), and forward-porting them on every release gets tedious, but the packaging/distutils2 effort has made it harder to get them included in plain distutils. I understand there shouldn't be crazy patching in distutils, but allowing it to inch forward a little would make the lives of the Gentoo Python team easier, at least. Cheers, If distutils gets new features I think it's killing the packaging effort.

Maybe these new features could be implemented in packaging, then bridged in Distutils ?

the Compilation feature is isolated enough to do this.

In any case, I guess we should have some kind of policy in place where we list the exceptions when distutils can be changed.

Maybe in the packaging PEP ?

Cheers Tarek

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