Part 1, how do you work ?
- Who are you ? (describe in a few sentence what do you do with Python)
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- How do you organize your application code most of the time ? (one answer)
- I put everything in one package
- I create several packages and with one main package to launch the application
- I create several packages and use a tool like zc.buildout or Paver to distribute the whole application
- What is the main tool you are using to package and distribute your Python application ? (one answer)
- None
- distutils
- setuptools
- zc.buildout and setuptools
- zc.buildout and distutils
- Paver and distutils
- Paver and setuptools
- How do you install a package that does not provide an installer most of the time ? (one answer)
- I use easy_install
- I use pip
- I download it and run manually the install command
- I use the packaging tool provided in my system (apt, yum, etc)
- How do you remove a package ? (one answer)
- manually, by removing the folder and fixing the .pth files
- using the packaging tool (apt, yum, etc)
- I use one virtualenv per application, so the main python is not polluted
- Do you work with namespaced packages ? (one answer)
- Yes
- No
Part 2, What's missing ? What is wrong ?
- What are in your opinion, the 5 most important problems (bad behaviors or lacks) in Distutils today ?
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- Would you like to see Python's Distutils package provide an uninstall command that removes just the files installed, and cleanup the .pth, even if it does undesirable things ? (one answer)
- Yes
- No
- What are the 5 most important features that exists in third-party tools, you would like to see included by the Python standard Library ?
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- What are the other things you like to say in order to help building Distutils roadmap ?
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