On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Kevin Horn <kevin.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > cluster****. So he rewrote distutils with an eye on keeping things nice for > everyone. Project managers, distro packagers, users installing software, > etc. This is distutils2. In Python 3.3 and up it will be called > "packaging". Once people start using it, it will make a lot of the current > packaging headaches in the Python world go away.
Are you sure about that? Where is the list of stories it will solve when people start using it, so I can check that my cases are covered by distutils2 insurance plan? > will hopefully go back to being a niche tool. Also also the Python > community could use a plugin standard that could replace setuptools' > entry_points. ABC classes? Trac components? What is plugin anyway? Discoverable module on a syspath? Registered entity in package repository? Filename in %HOMEDIR% that starts with tx.? (autoloaders from PHP5?) -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
