A list of Distutils-related Project

Please add a listing to this page if you're working on Distutils (and help us reduce duplication of effort).

PyPI

The central repository of Python package metadata and distribution files. See: CheeseShopDev

A Python package manager that downloads, builds, installs, upgrades, and switches between package versions automatically (using Python Eggs). See: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

An effort to produce single-file distributions of packages similar to Java JARs. See: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs

Paver: Easy Scripting for Software Projects

PEPs 262 "Database of Installed Python Packages" and 345 "Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2" are currently open

Build debian source packages using setuptools and the "sdist" distutils command. See: http://github.com/astraw/stdeb

Distribute A community-driven project that aims to gather all requirements for a future distribution package.

Defend Against Fruit: A continuous deployment focused extension to Distribute supporting Artifactory Pro as a PyPI server. See: http://teamfruit.github.io/defend_against_fruit/

Ian Bicking is looking to clean up and extend the use of release_urls in PyPI for use in Paste.
Maurice Ling is looking at implementing PEP 262 as an academic project.
Geoffrey T. Dairiki has a bdist_deb command http://bugs.python.org/1054967
eGenix uses its own extensions to distutils in the various egenix-mx packages called mxSetup.py. Among other things this module contains support for building Unix libraries, limited autoconf support, uninstall command and a clever build_ext command that allows to disable building extensions/packages from the command line and also supports building optional extensions (depending on the availability of certain include and library files).