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Distuils BoF Topics

There have been many proposals for changes and improvements to distutils, but any actual activity on improving distutils appears to have come to a complete halt. All activity has moved to third-party tools which layer on top of distutils.

There is a case to be made for integrating the best of the enhancements directly into distutils itself, with the most important being shared maintenance and making the tools readily available for use by smaller distributions. Currently, many larger distributions of Python code are incorporating distutils extensions directly into their distributions. This isn't much of a problem for large distributions (like Zope and PEAK), but seems out of place for smaller distributions of a single pakcage (like ZConfig).

The extensions which we should consider adding directly to distutils include:

If any distutils-related sprints emerge, hopefully there can be a progress report from that; it is not yet clear that there will be a distutils sprint.

Attendees

[mailto:fdrake@acm.org FredDrake], Andrew Kuchling.

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