Tasks for the sprint
- A new "generate manifest" build command that will generate the MANIFEST file. and be pluggable. target: replace the Distutils builtin MANIFEST.in system (that will be just a plugin) - Yannick Gringas
- cleanup, test and try out "distribute.resources": ronny, iElectric
- buildbot, test coverage, QA; lead: ssteinerX
- reimplement the develop command, lead: agronholm
- reimplement python setup.py install -- determine strategy wrt pip, lead: jezdez + tarek, carljm
- workon PEP 376 : tarek, carljm (lead)
Sprint results
- develop command:
- Created a skeleton command for develop
- Waiting for work to complete on the install and build_egg_info commands before work can continue here.
- build_egg_info command:
- Rewrote this command using setuptools code as a model
- Removed all SVN support code
- Removed obsolete egg-info writers
- Waiting on the manifest generation feature to finish this one
- Will implement PEP 376 egg-info writers when possible