Pysetup Sprint 2011-04-28 to 2011-05-01

Join members from the 'Pip' team as we work on completing the pysetup script and review the packaging(distutils2) API!

See the sprint goals for details.

Schedule

Start at 9:00am EST on 2011-04-28.

Participants

• Kelsey Hightower (Lead) - Atlanta, USA (online) (4/28 - 5/1)
• Jannis Leidel "jezdez" (pip) - Berlin, Germany (online) (4/28 - 5/1)
• Hugo Lopes Tavares "hugobr" (pip) - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (online) (4/28 - 5/1)
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel "mlhamel" - Montreal, QC, Canada (online) (4/28 - 5/1)

You can participate online by joining the #distutils channel on freenode and adding your name above.

Sprint Goals

• make it easy for 3rd party tools such as pip to integrate with packaging(distutils2) APIs

  • gather feedback and create a TODO list
  • fix whats broken
• finalize the pysetup feature set and implement missing features
  • borrow some idea's from pip
• documentation improvements
  • document all pysetup features
  • review and update the pysetup tutorial
  • review and update API documentation
• testing
  • make sure all pysetup features work (functional testing)
  • update packaging(distutils2) API and pysetup related unittests

Requirements

Sign the PSF Contributor Agreement

Make sure you sign the PSF agreement and send it back to the PSF.

Contributor Agreements

Hg repository

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tarek/cpython

How to run tests

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tarek/cpython
cd cpython
./configure
make
./python Lib/test/regrtest.py test_packaging 

How to build the docs

It seems there is a dependency on svn, make sure have it installed before running 'make html;.

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tarek/cpython
cd cpython/Doc/
make html