There are various fixes and improvements that should form part of a 2.0 version of Distutils.

• Move various utility methods out of command implementations and onto the Distribution class.
• Implement the package database described by PEP 262.
• Consider always regenerating the MANIFEST from MANIFEST.in.
• Finish bdist_dpkg.py
• sdist: Include scripts, data automatically in the source distribution.
• Drop Python 1.5.2 compatibility.
• Improve test coverage.
• Finish the documentation!
• Package installation from PyPI (probably driven by the pythonmac-sig)

What about package installation from [http://www.python.org/pypi PyPI]? -- MikeRovner DateTime(2003-10-08T23:14:09Z)

• Add more autoconf-like tests to the config command
• Make the design more extensible w.r.t. 'foreign' module compilation, specifically:
• Allow the integration of autoconf/make based build systems for C/C++ extensions
• Allow 'Extension' to be composed of components, each with their own build rules
• Provide a means for scripts / modules to access installation parameters such as datafile directories
• Define more default commands to build documentation, run (unit) tests, etc.

  • -- StefanSeefeld

Wouldn't it be a good idea to look into [http://scons.sf.net scons] and try to let both converge as far as practical ? -- StefanSeefeld

*cough* documentation *cough* -- RichardJones (AnthonyBaxter's worked on the docs some, but I don't know where he's at)