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This page describes a possible Summer of Code project for Distutils2

Contact: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org>

GSOC Tasks

Implement pkgutil APIs described in PEP 376 : http://bugs.python.org/issue8250 -- work started by people in the community already. (focus on speed with benches)
Implement a dependency-graph builder
Add basic PEP 376 support in Distribute [and Pip is possible]

Implement Distutils2 APIs described in PEP 376.
Add the uninstall command.
think about a basic installer / uninstaller script. (with deps) -- similar to pip/easy_install
in a pypi subpackage;
- Integrate a module similar to setuptools' package_index
- PyPI XML-RPC client for distutils 2: http://bugs.python.org/issue8190

Add a post/pre commit hook for install and uninstall commands: http://bugs.python.org/issue8312 see if it can be generic.
enhance the check command (sanity tests)
Move the upload_doc command from distribute
add an optional call to upload_doc into upload
Add a test command: http://bugs.python.org/issue8324

Study 4Suite' configure command
Write a configure command: http://bugs.python.org/issue8254
Make install and build optionnaly use the configure file
Make it possible to use setup.cfg to describe all the metatadata: http://bugs.python.org/issue8252
Describe the resources files and the Python files using a [resources] or [packages] [py_modules]
section in setup.cfg: http://bugs.python.org/issue8253
make setup.py optional (commands would be called trhough a -m call)

complete tutorial : http://bugs.python.org/issue8255
Promote and evangelize Distutils2–This will consist of helping python project to switch to/adopt Distutils2. We will define a list of targets at the beginning and the student will be in charge of helping them switching to Distutils2 if they want.

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-== Coding task -- Deadline: April 17th ==

Write a small Python application that will do the following:

 * provide a XML-RPC client that knows how to list all releases of a given project at PyPI (no need to implement the whole XML-RPC spec, but think about this as something we can reuse later during the GSOC, to implement the whole XML-RPC spec)

 * provide a script called "install_distribution.py" that will be used to  download the distribution and install it, using "python setup.py install"

The CLI can be used like this:

{{{ 
  $ install_distribution.py Foo
  Found versions of Foo:
        1.1
        1.2
  Which version do you want to install (hit enter for None)?
}}}

 or:

{{{
  $ install_distribution.py Foo 1.1 
}}}  

The code should be unit-tested, and documented. The goal is not to make you write something you don't know how to write, but to see how you write/organize code to help me select the student. So, I am available online for any question help.