On May 04, 2012, at 07:16 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >On 4 May 2012 19:06, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> wrote: >> ok. what is the relationship between 'distribute' & 'packaging'? > >Let's see if I get all these right: > >distutils: basic packaging functionality, part of the Python standard library >setuptools: third party module to add functionality that distutils lacked >distribute: continuation of setuptools after setuptools development stopped >packaging, aka distutils2: Improving on distutils but not backwards >compatible, will be integrated into the standard library for Python >3.3, and might then make setuptools/distribute obsolete. > >Please correct me if I've got any of that wrong.
Well done! A few minor corrections. - packaging is available in Python 3.3 (alpha) now. - distutils2 is the backport of packaging to older Pythons, available in the Cheeseshop. Actually, the Cheeseshop entry has a pretty good explanation: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2 Cheers, -Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120504142850.233c9...@resist.wooz.org
