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

Easy Install

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

Python Eggs

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

Paver

Paver: Easy Scripting for Software Projects

PEPs for extending distutils / PyPI

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

Uraga

An effort to develop a tool for download and installation of packages. See: http://www.byteofpython.info/projects/uraga/uraga.html

zpkgtools

A source-based packaging system. See: http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/zpkgtools/

stdeb

Build debian source packages using setuptools and the "sdist" distutils command. See: http://stdeb.python-hosting.com/

Distribute

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

Other efforts we know about

• 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).