Functionality

setuptools does many things. Breaking that down into different areas will allow people to contribute to a smaller chunk that they feel familiar with and excited about.

Note! This is the early stages of this. Feel free to brainstorm or organize at will.

metadata

This is the metadata about the package that's stored in the egg

Ideas

egg format

This is the format of metadata + code + data that is zipped up into an egg.

pkg_resources: Library Dependency Manager

This is the functionality that loads libraries of certain versions and runs them,

Ideas

pkg_resources: Resource Manager

Allow code to import data from an unknown and variable location on the disk.

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#resourcemanager-api

Ideas

easy_install

Tool that downloads and installs all the dependencies of a package

build

Tool that makes building and installing from source easier

Ideas

Distribute/Functionality (last edited 2008-11-15 14:01:18 by localhost)

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