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.
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)