retitle 597395 RFP: python-distutils2 -- the replacement of distutils thanks
Hi all, I took over the day-to-day upstream maintenance of distutils2, with Tarek still being the lead and decision-maker of the project. I’m interested in becoming officially involved in Debian and have started learning Debian policies and tools, so I will probably make an ITP for this when I release distutils2 1.0a4 later this month. [Matthias] > Given, that this is just a new version of existing software, I would > like to at least co-maintain that. What would “at most” be? Being sole maintainer? > I'd like to keep the changes in current distutils and distribute, and > distutils2 in sync. I don’t really understand why distutils in Debian has a non-standard --install-layout option. Can’t it be achieved with regular --root/--prefix/--install-* options? Also, with packaging in Python 3.3 or distutils2, the configuration for installation schemes move from Python code in the install command to a sysconfig.cfg file, which is precisely intended for OS packagers to customize. Won’t that remove the need for --install-layout? > Are there currently any packages which use distutils2? There are some projects on PyPI that depend on d2 for their packaging, in replacement or in addition to distutils or setuptools-based setup.py. I don’t know if there are projects which use d2 at runtime (i.e. packaging tools using public building blocks we provide). HTH Best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec26a14.4070...@netwok.org
